MEXICO CITY, Jan. 8 (UPI) — Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Sinaloa drug cartel kingpin who led authorities on a months-long manhunt after escaping from a Mexican prison, has been captured, President Enrique Peña Nieto said Friday.
“Mission complete: We got him. I would like to inform the people of Mexico that Joaquin Guzman has been detained,” Peña Nieto wrote on Twitter.
Guzman escaped from the maximum-security Altiplano Federal Prison in the town of Almoloya de Juaraz of the state of Mexico July 12. He escaped from through a tunnel in a bathroom area.
Andrew V. Pestano contributed to this report.
