The Taking of El Chapo

In early January, [Guzmán] arrived in the coastal city of Los Mochis, in Sinaloa, at a home where the authorities had trailed one of the chief tunnel diggers from his escape. Construction crews had been hard at work on the house for weeks. Telephone intercepts indicated that someone big was about to arrive.

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The circle had already been drawing tighter around Mr. Guzmán, with the authorities pressing into the villages and homes of his associates and upending life for many in the areas where he was believed to be hiding. But his meeting with the [Sean Penn and Kate del Castillo] gave them the break they needed: actionable intelligence of his specific location.

Six days later, a detachment of marines swept in to capture Mr. Guzmán [...], acting with information from American authorities.

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The final bit of evidence was a food order, Mexican officials said.

Just two blocks away, a big order of tacos was picked up after midnight on Jan. 8 by a man driving a white van, like the one believed to be driven by Mr. Guzmán’s associates, witnesses said.

Hours later, at 4:30 a.m., the marines stormed the compound.

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El Chapo’s image [...] seemed only to grow after his [several] escapes.

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Mr. Guzmán’s capture [...] brings to a close, for now, one of the most exhaustive manhunts the Mexican government has conducted, an endeavor that drew in more than 2,500 people across the nation.

That all that effort was committed to the pursuit of a single man — whose arrest, despite his wealth and influence, will do little to alter the dynamics of the drug trade or the war against it — reflects just how potent a symbol Mr. Guzmán has become in Mexico and beyond.

  NYT

On the road, Mr. Guzmán and his associate headed out of town along Highway 15. But the federal police were on alert, and they spotted the two men in the Ford Focus and arrested them.

Ford Focus?!?

Perhaps that was meant to disguise them.  Surely it wasn't simply just their preferred getaway car.