Mexicanauthorities captured the world's most powerful drug lord in a resort city Saturday after a massive search through the home state of the legendary chapo 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. An American official said that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Marshals Service were "heavily involved" in the capture. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called the capture a "victory for the citizens of both Mexico and the United States." Mexican authorities, based on a series of arrests in recent months, got wind that Guzman was moving around Culiacan, capital of his home state for which the cartel is named.
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