‘El Chapo’ Son Held in Mexico Drug Case as Violence Engulfs City

Mexico’s military arrested Ovidio Guzman, the alleged leader of a major drug trafficking organization suspected of funneling narcotics to the US, as violence engulfed the city where the operation took place.

Guzman, one of the sons of incarcerated drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was captured early Thursday in Culiacan, in the Sinaloa state, and transferred to Mexico City, Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval told reporters. He said Guzman was a source of “violence in four states and in the northwest of the country.”

Blockades, shootings and looting were reported across the city following the military operation, according to ...