Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been captured, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced Friday via Twitter.
"Mission Accomplished," the President wrote. "We have him."
Members of Mexico's navy caught him in an operation around 4:30 a.m. (6:30 a.m. ET) in the coastal city of Los Mochis in Sinaloa state, a senior law enforcement official in Mexico told CNN. Several people aligned with Guzman died in the raid.
"This was a coordinated effort by multiple intelligence agencies," the official said.
Guzman's capture represents a major success in what has been an embarrassing ordeal for Mexico. For many, "El Chapo" has been a symbol of the Mexican government's ineptitude and corruption. He has led one of the country's most powerful, violent drug cartels and escaped maximum-security prisons not once, but twice, the latest in July when he busted out through a hole into a mile-long tunnel and then on to freedom.
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