Nearly six months after his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico, the drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, also known as El Chapo, has been arrested by the Mexican authorities, according to the Twitter feed of the country’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto.
The arrest came after an intense gun battle this morning in the city of Los Mochis, a seaside area in Mr. Guzman’s home state of Sinaloa.
“Mission Accomplished: We have him,” read the tweet from Mr. Peña Nieto. “I would like to inform the Mexican people that Joaquin Loera Guzman has been detained.”
The mission began shortly before 5 a.m. Friday, after an anonymous tip came in from a citizen concerned about armed men in a nearby home.
The authorities went to the house, where they were fired upon. The operation was conducted by Mexico’s most-trusted military wing, the Marines, who captured Mr. Guzman in early 2014, before his escape last July.
