Notorious drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman Loera has been recaptured

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[h=1]'El Chapo' CAPTURED: World's most-wanted drug lord is caught in deadly shootout at Mexican hideaway packed with armored cars and rocket launchers, six months after his spectacular jailbreak[/h]

• Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman Loera was apprehended in a pre-dawn raid on a motel in Los Mochis, Mexico
• Hideout was around 1,300 miles from the jail he escaped from in July last year after fleeing through a tunnel
• Five cartel gangsters were killed and six others arrested in the raid, which also left a Mexican marine injured
• Vast arsenal of weapons including rocket launchers, machine guns and armored vehicles was seized
• US drug enforcement officials and US Marshals helped capture El Chapo and his right-hand man El Cholo
• The drug lord had been on the run since July, when he staged a daring escape from Mexico's most secure prison
• He escaped from a firefight with marines in Los Mochis earlier on Friday before finally being recaptured
• El Chapo is also wanted in the U.S. for several drug trafficking charges but it is not clear if he will be extradited

Notorious drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman Loera has been recaptured six months after his elaborate escape from a Mexican maximum security prison.
Mexican marines captured El Chapo, which means 'the short one' in Spanish, during a raid in the town of Los Mochis, located in the kingpin's home state of Sinaloa.
Five cartel gangsters were killed and another six were arrested in the raid, while one Mexican marine sustained non-life-threatening injuries. A vast arsenal of weapons was siezed, including rocket launchers, machine guns and armored vehicles.
El Chapo had earlier escaped from a nearby house which came under fire from marines as the net closed on the cartel leader, Mexican officials revealed.
Mexican police say the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Marshals aided in El Chapo's recapture. It is not yet clear whether El Chapo will be extradited to the US, but he was seen being bundled on to a plane by security officials on Friday afternoon.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto wrote on his Twitter account on Friday: 'Mission accomplished: We have him.'
The raid also ended in the capture of El Chapo's right-hand man 'El Cholo', a hitman who was also on the run from the law.



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Got him! Notorious drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman Loera has been recaptured six months since he escaped from Mexico's most secure prison

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Back to jail: It is not yet clear whether El Chapo will be extradited to the US, but he was seen being bundled on to a plane by security officials late on Friday afternoon

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Victory: Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto wrote on his Twitter account on Friday: 'Mission accomplished: we have him'

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Military action: El Chapo was apprehended in an early morning raid in the town of Los Mochis, in the drug kingpin's home state of Sinaloa and 1,300 miles away from the jail he escaped from



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Arrest: El Chapo was apprehended while he was staying in the relatively isolated Hotel & Suites Doux in the town of Los Mochis in the state of Sinaloa

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El Chapo was escorted to a SUV with a white towel over his head before being taken to an airport - but his destination is not known

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Covered: Officials covered El Chapo's head with a white towel as they escorted him onto a small plane after his arrest Friday morning

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En route: It iss unclear where Mexican officials are taking the drug kingpin. The US has previously asked El Chapo be extradited

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Good news: Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced the arrest of notorious drug kingpin El Chapo from the courtyard of the presidential palace on Friday

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Accomplice: El Chapo's hitman Orso Iván Gastélum Cruz, known as 'El Cholo', after he was taken into custody following the shootout



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El Cholo (right) - El Chapo's right-hand man - was captured alongside the drug lord. The hitman's beauty queen girlfriend Maria Susana Flores Gamez (left) was killed in a raid by the Mexican army in 2012

Gamez, 20, was in the company of dangerous drug traffickers when she died and her body was found laying next to an assault rifle

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The Mexican Navy said in a statement that marines acting on a tip raided a motel in the town of Los Mochis around 4:30am

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Magazine: At the building marines seized two armored vehicles, eight rifles, one handgun and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher

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Above, a view of a street in Los Mochis in the aftermath of the predawn shootout with Mexican marines

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Man holes are opened in the Los Mochis street near where El Chapo was captured on Friday

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From the air: Helicopter circle around the neighborhood where El Chapo was taken into custody on Friday. El Chapo has a lot of supporters in his home state of Sinaloa

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Lookout: Members of the Mexican military stand guard near the building where El Chapo was taken into custody on Friday

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Mexican authorities say the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and U.S. Marshals aided in El Chapo's arrest

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Down below: A member of Mexican Navy Force points with his weapon into a sewer during military operations after recapturing Mexican drug lord El Chapo

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Finally: El Chapo's arrest was a big win for the Mexican government, after his embarrassing escape over the summer. Above, two Mexican marines patrol the street near where El Chapo was arrested Friday

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Armed: A man rides a bike down the street in Los Mochis, Mexico on Friday as a Mexican marine stands guard

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Job well done: The president of Mexico was surrounded by other governmental figureheads as he made the speech on Friday

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A Twitter account that has previously been linked to El Chapo, which uses the handle @ElChap0Guzman, posted two tweets two days before the drug lord's capture

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The first, translated from Mexican, said he was 'busy and happy' and enjoying life with his children. A second (pictured) said he loved his family and valued people who loved them, but that 'everyone else can go f*** their mothers'



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Senator John McCain tweeted his congratulations to the Mexican authorities and added: 'Now let's extradite him to the US'

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Prison break: A motorcycle adapted to a rail sits in the tunnel under the half-built house where El Chapo made his escape from the Altiplano maximum security prison in July

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Slipped away: A composite handout picture taken from a video shows the escape of El Chapo through the tunnel


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Rich man: El Chapo's fortune was once estimated at $1billion. Above, a mugshot taken after El Chapo's last capture and imprisonment


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Head down: El Chapo pictured above in February 2014, when he was captured the last time he broke out of jail


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[ScottL]

Imagine how he's gonna feel when he finds out his whereabouts were uncovered before BFL's.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Imagine how he's gonna feel when he finds out his whereabouts were uncovered before BFL's.

 

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[vitterd]

Imagine how he's gonna feel when he finds out his whereabouts were uncovered before BFL's.

Lol.....el chapo said Romney in a landslide as well.