On February 22nd, Mexican security forces, alongside the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), succeeded in capturing Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in Mazatlan, Mexico after a 13-year manhunt.

The security forces arrested Guzman, who has long been recognized as one of the world’s most powerful drug kingpins, while he was sleeping in a hotel, so no shots were fired. According to ABC News, Guzman is believed to be responsible for about 25% of all of the illegal drugs being moved into the U.S., including marijuana and cocaine.

Time magazine reported that after drug dealer Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo–also known as “Godfather”–was arrested in 1989, Guzman took over some of his territory and started his own drug cartel called the Sinaloa Cartel.  Mexican officials arrested Guzman after he escaped from Puente Grande Federal Prison in Jalisco, Mexico in 2001.  In the years following his escape, Guzman continued to move illegal drugs throughout the U.S., and his cartel grew. These recent events are looking to be the first few cracks in the massive drug empire that Guzman has built over the years.