BUSTED: World’s most- wanted drug lord arrested in Mexico (PICTURED)

BUSTED: World’s most-
wanted drug lord arrested in
Mexico (PICTURED)
Joaquin Guzman is the billionaire head of a mexico
drug cartel as was branded as the world’s most-
wanted drug baron before his arrest.
Guzman also knows as ‘Shorty’ was worth $ 1 bn as at
the time of his arrest with a $ 5 million bounty on his
head before he was arrested in Mexico at a beach
resort town.
The drug lord was considered extremely violent and
dangerous as is responsible for over 10,000 people.
NY Daily News reports:
Considered an urban legend in Mexico,
Guzman has placed on Forbes’ list of
billionaires and was named Chicago’s
No. 1 Public Enemy last year. “Not since
the Chicago Crime Commission’s first
Public Enemy No. 1 has any criminal
deserved this title more than Joaquin
Guzman,” said J.R. Davis, president of
94-year-old Chicago Crime
Commission.
Nicknamed “El Chapo” (Shorty) for his 5-
foot, 6-inch frame, Guzman’s bloody
cartel is responsible for supplying much
of the multi-ton shipments of heroin,
marijuana and meth that enters the U.S.
from Mexico.
The DEA calls him the “godfather of the
drug world.” His worth is estimated at $
1 billion.
Arguably the most feared kingpin in
Mexico, Guzman, 59, was arrested in
Guatemala in 1993 and extradited to
Mexico, where he was sentenced to more
than 20 years in prison on narcotics
trafficking charges.
Police officers surround
pickup truck with the burned
bodies of several people in
Sinaloa, the home state of the
country’s most powerful drug
lord, Joaquin ‘El Chapo’
Guzman, in 2011. The victims
were believed to be casualties
of a narcotics war between
Guzman’s Sinaloa Cartel and
rivals.
In an audacious 2001 escape, Guzman
bribed dozens of federal prison guards,
who hid him in a laundry basket and
walked him out the front door. He had
been on the lam ever since.
Mexican and U.S. authorities gave little
information about Friday night’s capture
except to say it occurred in Mazatlan
and was a joint operation by both
countries.
The subject of many “narcorrido” folk
songs, Guzman is a grade-school
dropout who entered the drug world at
age 15, rising through the criminal ranks
to become head of the Sinaloa Cartel, the
largest crime syndicate in Mexico.
The Sinaloa Cartel warred with
rival syndicates in Ciudad
Juarez for control of the
border town. This 2009 crime
scene photo shows bullet
holes from shootout on a city
street.
The ring has used small planes, 747
jumbo jets, boats, railroad cars and vast
tunnels running under the border to
smuggle narcotics into foreign countries,
most of it bound for the United States.
His storied empire was built with help
from relatives. His son, Edgar, was killed
in a shootout in 2008.
The famous outlaw had managed to
elude arrest, despite living in plain sight,
many complained.
In 2005, the fugitive walked into a
restaurant in Colonia Las Quintas, after
bodyguards armed with AK-47s told
patrons to remain in their seats and
continue eating.
“A man is going to come in, the boss. We
ask that you remain in your seats; the
doors will close and nobody is allowed
to leave … Do not worry; if you do
everything that is asked of you, nothing
will happen. Continue eating and don’t
ask for your check. The boss will pay,”
one of the guards told diners, according
to George W. Grayson’s 2011 book
“Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed
State?”