Two Sons of Drug Lord El Chapo Possibly Abducted in Puerto Vallarta

Two sons of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" ("Shorty") Guzman could have been abducted at a resort restaurant in the Mexican town of Puerto Vallarta, authorities said.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar, the drug lord’s 29-year-old son, was abducted from the La Leche restaurant along with several other people on Monday, authorities have confirmed.

The Secretary General of the Jalisco State Government, Roberto Lopez Lara, said as quoted by Excelsior on Wednesday, that there is a possibility that Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Loera, known as "El Chapito" was also captured.

"It may be possible, I am not ruling it out, but I am not affirming it right now either," Lara told journalists.

Guzman escaped from the Altiplano maximum security prison on July 11, 2015, using an underground tunnel. Mexican authorities searched for El Chapo for months before finally capturing him in January and sending him back to Altiplano.

El Chapo’s most recent escape is not his first one. In 2001, he escaped from a maximum security prison in Mexico’s Jalisco State, using a laundry cart.

Guzman’s Sinaloa drug cartel, named after his home state, smuggles cocaine from Colombia through Mexico to the United States. Sinaloa is responsible for a major portion of cocaine, heroin and marijuana sold in the streets of the United States. The drug empire has allowed Guzman to accumulate a major fortune, which was estimated to be some $1 billion in 2009.