Ovidio Guzman, the notorious son of the Sinaloa drug cartel El Chapo, has been arrested, leading to an eruption of violence in Mexico.
Mexican authorities have been hunting for Ovidio Guzman for years now. The new face of the Mexican drug trade was arrested and released due to violence.
The Mouse was detained on Thursday, Jan. 5, by the Army and National Guard, the Mexican defence secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval told a news conference
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According to officials, El Raton has been transferred to a maximum military base in Mexico City. He will be facing extradition to the US where he will face drug charges.
His capture during a night of violence that paralysed the Sinaloan city of Culiacan on Thursday, city officials said. Residents were warned to remain indoors. Vehicles were set ablaze blocking exits to several cities in the western Mexico state.
We ask the citizens of Culiacán not to leave home, due to the blockades that have occurred in different parts of the city,” the city’s mayor Juan de Dios Gamez wrote on Twitter.
Properties have lost their value as well as human lives before his arrest. Sinaloa governor Ruben Rocha Moya tweeted that Federal Armed Forces had been carrying out an operation in the Sinaloa village of Jesús María since dawn on Thursday.
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