By NBC News
The chief money launderer for notorious drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera has been detained in southern Mexico, the country’s Federal Police said Sunday.
In a statement, police said Juan Manuel Alvarez was captured in Oaxaca City “without firing a single shot.”
“The coordination of intelligence and field work allowed us to track down the subject, between the states of Sinaloa and Jalisco, but as he relaxed his safety perimeter to spend the holidays in the capital of the state of Oaxaca, the capture was carried out,” the statement said…
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