El Chapo's son caught and released by Mexican police after intense gunfight
- by Jerome Frank
- in World News
- — Oct 18, 2019
Mexico's top drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted as he arrives at Long Island MacArthur airport in NY on January 19, 2017, after his extradition from Mexico.
"In order to protect the greater good, the people of Culiacan's safety and well-being, the (federal government's) security cabinet chose to suspend said actions", Durazo said in a video message. The US Division of Justice unveiled an indictment in opposition to Ovidio and one other of the brothers in February, charging them with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana in the US.
Gangsters had set up roadblocks and were unleashing heavy automatic gunfire in the area, which has always been a stronghold for the Guzmans' Sinaloa cartel.
Jose Luis Gonzalez Meza, a lawyer for "El Chapo's" family, told The Associated Press that Guzman's family has said "Ovidio is alive and free" but that he had no more details about what had happened.
Following Thursday's localization of Ovidio Guzman, Culiacan exploded in violence with armed civilians in trucks roaring through the city's centre shooting what appeared to be.50-calibre sniper rifles and machine-guns.
Videos posted on social media showed trucks with heavy machine guns patrolling city streets.
People could be seen running for cover as automatic gun fire rattled around them.
Drivers drove in reverse frantically to move away from the clashes.
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In this AFPTV screen grab armed gunmen take position in a street of Culiacan, capital of jailed kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's home state of Sinaloa, on October 17, 2019. "There is a psychosis". He did not rule out that there were deaths.
The scenes in Sinaloa comply with the bloodbath of greater than a dozen police in western Mexico earlier this week, and the killing of 14 suspected gangsters by the military a day later. Simultaneously, some 20 to 30 prisoners escaped though some were quickly recaptured, he said.
In 2015, he escaped a Mexican prison and was later arrested before officials extradited him to the United States to face trial in New York City.
Gov. Quirino Ordaz confirmed that school classes had been suspended but that businesses would open on Friday.
In July, their father - the once-powerful leader of the Sinaloa cartel - was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years in the US.
He was considered the most "powerful drug trafficker in the world" by the Treasury Department and his criminal enterprise spanned continents and triggered bloodshed throughout his native Mexico.
Ray Donovan, the DEA special agent who spearheaded the 22-agency effort that led to Guzman's capture, told CNN in February that the Sinaloa cartel still supplies the vast majority of U.S. drug markets. He has many children. The battle was resolved with the arrest of Damaso Lopez Nunez and his son Damaso Lopez Serrano, who led a rival faction.
