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Borderland Beat from Reforma
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Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, leader of the Sinaloa cartel, was captured, officials confirmed the United States and Mexico. According to reports, the drug dealer last night was located by soldiers and the Attorney General's Office (PGR) in a hotel in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, while he was on a fellowship. At this location also intervened U.S. intelligence, officials said. PGR is performing DNA testing to ensure the arrested man's identity is Guzman.
For five days, Sinaloa was a target of the authorities, mainly from the Marina and the PGR, which began with a series of raids in search operations “El Chapo” and Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.
At one raids conducted on 20 January, the Navy I found a property Griselda Pérez López, former wife of capo.
At that location they arrested Jesús Peña González “El 20″ and other members of the cartel, who provided information the authorities.
The Sinaloa cartel leader faces multiple federal drug charges in the United States and is on the list of most wanted DEA. His drug empire stretches throughout North America, but also reaches as far away as Europe and Australia .
In January 19, 2001, “Chapo” escaped prison out of Puente Grande, located in Jalisco, exiting hidden in a laundry basket.. REFORM published on January 19 to 13 years of evasion, the federal government was betting the recapture of Sinaloa with screening of family, friends, partners and managers who protected him.
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Security Cabinet prepared to mid last year wrote a detailed report of his inner circle, information updated in October. Including biographical information documenting 70 family members, employees and other persons close to the inner circle.. Additionally in the report are rare photographs of these people, including seven romantic partners of the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel and their children.
According to the report, the Guzman last decade has remained, most of the time, hidden in inaccessible areas of the Golden Triangle, mainly in the six points of Sinaloa and 12 in Durango .
In more than five years, the government only detected “El Chapo” in two urban areas: Culiacan Sinaloa and Los Cabos, Baja California Sur. In both places he escaped.
Source:
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2014/02/dna-testing-to-assure-ma-arrested-is.html