LEADING DRUG LORD SUPPLIER OR COCAINE ARRESTED IN MEXICO.. Feb 22, 10:02 PM EST...Mexico captures Sinaloa cartel boss Chapo Guzman By ALICIA A. CALDWELL, ELLIOT SPAGAT and MARK STEVENSON MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican authorities captured the worlds most powerful drug lord in a resort city Saturday after a massive search through the home state of the legendary capo whose global organization is the leading supplier of cocaine to the United States. Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, 56, looked pudgy, bowed and much like his wanted photos when he arrived in Mexico City from Mazatlan in Sinaloa state. He was marched by masked marines across the airport tarmac to a helicopter waiting to whisk him to jail. Marines arrested Guzman at 6:40 a.m. in a high-rise condominium fronting the Pacific without firing a single shot. Mexican officials late Saturday said he was apprehended with a man identified as Carlos Manuel Hoo Ramirez, contradicting earlier reports that he was arrested with a woman.... READ MORE: hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DRUG_WAR_MEXICO?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-02-22-11-21-41
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