On Thursday, Mexican authorities arrested drug cartel leader Ovidio Guzman, son of incarcerated kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in Sinaloa.
On Friday, Mexico’s Secretary of Defense Luis Cresncio Sandoval said Mexican security forces captured Guzman, 32, and twenty-one other people.
Nineteen suspected gang members and ten military personnel were killed in the operation, no reports of any civilian deaths.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said there were no current plans to extradite Ovidio to the US, where his father is incarcerated.
