The Mexican military has captured a son of the imprisoned drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
, in a pre-dawn operation Thursday that set off gunfights and roadblocks across the western state’s capital.
"This is a significant blow to the Sinaloa cartel and major victory for the rule of law. It will not, however, impede the flow of drugs into the U.S. Hopefully, Mexico will extradite him to the U.S.," Mike Vigil, the DEA’s former Chief of International Operations, said Thursday. The capture was the result of six months of reconnaissance and surveillance in the cartel’s territory, and then quick action on Thursday, Sandoval said. National Guard troops spotted SUVs, some with homemade armor, and immediately coordinated with the army as they established a perimeter around the suspicious vehicles and forced the occupants out to be searched.
Other "little Chapos" include two of his brothers — Iván Archivaldo Guzmán and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán — who are believed to have been running cartel operations together with Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
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