THESE HORRIFYING pictures reveal the fall out from the arrest of El Chapo’s youngest son as his compound was left riddled with bullets following an all-out war.
When Mexican authorities detained Ovidio Guzman on January 5, the arrest escalated into a terrifying gun battle that left at least 29 dead.
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The gangster lived in a compound in Jesus Maria, Mexico and was having an intimate family gathering at the time of the raid.
Pictures showed the massive wood double-doors riddled with hundreds of bullet holes, leaving one side hanging by its hinge.
Inside, the living room was ransacked with high-end furniture strewn about and darkened with blood.
The walls were littered with bullet holes and large-caliber shell casings covered the floor.
These moments of terror were amid the Mexican military dispatching airplanes, helicopters, and hundreds of soldiers to arrest Guzmán, 32.
He is the youngest of four “Chapitos,” who are believed to have taken control of the Sinaloa Cartel since their father was extradited to the US in 2017.
The US government believes he is one of the main overseers of fentanyl production and trafficking within the cartel.
The Mexican military were able to capture Guzmán within the first ten minutes of the raid.
However, the raid laid waste to the town as sicarios and police battled for more than ten hours after.
Nineteen suspected gang members and ten military personnel were killed during the attack, according to Mexico’s Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval.
Another 21 people, believed to be Guzmán’s foot-soldiers, were arrested, according to local authorities.
Residents told VICE World News the real death toll was much higher.
A local, who remained anonymous, said: “There are currently more than 140 people missing in Jesus Maria, mostly kids and teenagers, that the government is not acknowledging.
“We need to recover those bodies.
“Some people are saying that the government took them in a helicopter to hide them from us.”
One resident accused the Mexican army of wounding their 13-year-old son.
The resident said: “The army shot at everything that moved in the town.
“My kid went out to buy food when we thought the gunfight was over and he got shot from the air and was hit in his liver, a lung.
“He is fighting for his life now.”
Ovidio – dubbed “El Ratón” or The Mouse – is now being held at a maximum security federal prison in Mexico City.
Pictures shared online by Mexican journalists showed the cartel heir looking shellshocked in custody.
Wearing an orange prison-issue vest, he stares wide-eyed as he is questioned by officers.
A second pic appears to show him being bundled into a helicopter.
He was due to have a haircut and a shave to remove his beard after the pics were taken, according to reports in Mexico.
A mugshot of the captured alleged drug lord with a black bar over his eyes has also been released.
The US had offered a $5million reward for information leading to Ovidio’s arrest or conviction.
It is not clear whether Ovidio will be extradited to the United States like his father, who is serving a life sentence at Colorado’s Supermax, the most secure US federal prison.
Ovidio was briefly captured in 2019 before security forces were forced to free him after the cartel launched an all-out war in response on the streets of Culiacan.
The cop who arrested El Chapo’s son was later shot 155 times in a brutal car park execution.
Ovidio has also been accused by the US State Department – along with his brother Joaquin – of overseeing 11 meth labs producing up to 2,200kg of the drug per month.
Authorities believe he is also behind the murders of informants, a rival drug trafficker, and a popular Mexican singer who refused to sing at his wedding.
El Chapo is currently serving life in prison in the US for trafficking hundreds of tons of drugs into the United States over a 25-year period.
The 65-year-old was convicted in 2019 of trafficking worth billions of dollars, as well as conspiring to murder his enemies.
But his cartel remains one of the most powerful in Mexico, and one of the largest drug trafficking organisations in the world.
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James Liveris
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