Blog del Narco- El Chapo’s Son NOT Arrested- Mistaken Identity

As reported earlier, the Mexican authorities announced the capture of the son of El Chapo Guzman, identifying the young man as Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar.

But yesterday, doubts began to emerge, as many people pointed out that the young Sinaloa presented was not really the son of El Chapo. Were the authorities lying?  It was big news and with the upcoming election, it was promoted for obvious reasons. In the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, the mis identified boys family and his lawyer gave a press conference where they said that the young man is actually Felix Beltran Leon. The boy’s mother said he did not know Joaquin Guzman and had no relationship of any kind with the Sinaloa cartel.

The lawyer and the mother of Felix had family photographs, as well as identification of the boy who was born in Durango, Sinaloa where he lived with his family, but recently he moved to Jalisco because he married a woman identified as Karla Pacheco.

Felix was arrested in a case of mistaken identity.

Meanwhile officials of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) confirmed that the young man arrested and brought yesterday is not the son of El Chapo Guzman. They mentioned that it was all a misunderstanding.

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