"Mission accomplished: We accept him. I wish to acquaint the Mexicans that Joaquin Guzman Loera has been detained," the tweet, which is accounting in Spanish, states.
A U.S. law administration official aswell accepted his abduction to ABC News.
At a account appointment this afternoon, the Mexican admiral said that the biologic kingpin's abduction followed months of intelligence work. He hailed Guzman's abduction as a assurance that Mexico can affected corruption.
An official from the Mexico Marines confirms to ABC Account that Guzman was captured afterwards a shootout in the city-limits of Los Mochis, in the accompaniment of Sinaloa, this morning.Earlier today, The Associated Press appear that 5 humans had been dead and six humans were arrested if the Mexican Marines raided a abode in Sinaloa. The AP has back announced to a Mexican law administration official who accepted that Guzman was captured in a altered arrest at a adjacent motel.
There accept been added raids in Sinaloa in contempo months as allotment of the seek for Guzman, the AP said.
Guzman, 57, able from the Altiplano bastille abreast Mexico City-limits July 11 and there has been an alive manhunt for him anytime since.
When guards accomplished that he was missing from his cell, they begin that a aerial adit had been complete and had an avenue via the bathtub central Guzman's cell. The adit continued for about a mile underground and featured an acclimatized motorcycle on balustrade that admiral accept was acclimated to carriage the accoutrement acclimated to actualize the tunnel, Monte Alejandro Rubido, the arch of the Mexican civic aegis commission, said in July afterwards Guzman's escape.
Guzman had been arrested 5 months above-mentioned to the July escape.
He had able afore from a above-mentioned bastille stint, aswell application a tunnel.
