Mexican president: We caught "El Chapo"

Geraldo: "El Chapo" will escape again if he isn"t extradited to the U.S.

Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as El Chapo, has been captured, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Friday on Twitter.

Mission accomplished: We have him. I want to inform the Mexicans that Joaquin Guzman Lorea has been detained, Nieto wrote in Spanish.

He congratulated security authorities in his Cabinet for the arrest in a follow-up tweet.

No further details about the capture have been released.

Guzman escaped from prison in July of last year when he tunneled his way out of a maximum security prison near Mexico City.

Days after he escaped, Guzman taunted authorities in pictures showing him sipping beer from his private plane. There has been amanhunt for him since.

The kingpin is worth an estimated $1 billion.

Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/265236-mexican-president-we-caught-el-chapo