Busted again! Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” recaptured 6 months after escape
Mexican president, Enrique Pena Nieto, has announced the arrest of drug kingpin, Joaquin Guzman Loera.
The arrest followed an intense gun battle, Friday morning, in the city of Los Mochis, New York Times reports.
Nieto made the announcement in a tweet, saying: “Mission accomplished: we’ve got him. I would like to inform the Mexican people that Joaquin Guzman Loera has been captured.”
Misión cumplida: lo tenemos. Quiero informar a los mexicanos que Joaquín Guzmán Loera ha sido detenido.
— Enrique Peña Nieto (@EPN) January 8, 2016Loera, also known as El Chapo escaped from a maximum security prison in Mexico about six months ago.
His escape was an embarrassment to the Nieto led Mexican government which had proclaimed his arrest as crucial achievements.
Last summer, El Chapo stepped into the shower in the most secure cell of one of the most secure prisons in Mexico and abruptly vanished in full view of a video camera.
Guards later found a small hole in the shower floor leading to a mile-long tunnel through which the drug baron escaped. That escape was the second in 15 years.
