Drug Kingpin’s Son Arrested in Mexico
MEXICO CITY — A man believed to be the son of Mexico’s most-wanted drug trafficker has been detained by the Mexican Navy, one of a series of recent moves aimed at toppling the elusive kingpin, Mexican officials said Thursday.
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Jesús Aflredo Guzmán Salazar, 26, “the presumed son” of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known by his nickname, El Chapo, or Shorty, was arrested Thursday morning in Jalisco State, on the central Pacific Coast, along with another person, the navy said in a statement, but it did not say what charges they might face.
The two were taken to Mexico City and presented to the news media, with Mr. Guzmán Salazar, whom the navy described as “one of the main directors of the Sinaloa cartel,” looking somber and downcast in a light blue shirt covered by a bulletproof vest.
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