Newspaper Credits Citizen for Alerting Authorities of El Chapo's Location Hispanically Speaking News
go to original March 31, 2014

The arrest of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman was made by marines responding to a request for assistance from a civilian, Mexico press reports say.

Guzman, the world’s most notorious and powerful drug trafficker, was arrested on Feb. 22 at a building in Mazatlan, a port city in the northwestern state of Sinaloa.

Two marines said in official statements that a thin man asked a patrol for help after spotting a heavily armed man at an apartment building, the daily Excelsior reported.

“I, who was riding shotgun, asked him what he wanted, to which he responded that he had seen an armed person inside the apartment tower called Miramar a few minutes earlier, that he was scared and wanted help from us desperately,” one of the marines said.

... The official version of events is that the 56-year-old Guzman was captured thanks to a detailed investigation and the tracking of his telephones with U.S. assistance.

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