El Chapo: Mexican President tweets notorious drug kingpin captured

El ChapoMexico — (NBC News) Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman, who singlehandedly humiliated authorities when he tunneled out of a maximum security prison in July, has been captured, Mexico’ president said Friday.

“Mission accomplished,” Enrique Pena Nieto said on Twitter. “We have him.”
A law enforcement source confirmed the arrest to NBC News.

Guzman, leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel and a master of underground tunnels, set off a furious manhunt when he casually slipped away from Altiplano prison near Mexico City, a Hollywood-style escape through a mile-long tunnel outfitted with a motorbike that led to construction site.

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