Police officers control the traffic at a police check point on a road leading to the municipality of Badiraguato, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, July 17, 2015.
Mexican authorities may be closing in on fugitive Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin ?El Chapo? Guzmán four months after his brazen escape from a maximum-security prison in central Mexico.
According to a report from the Mirror, ?intense military operations? are ongoing in Guzmán?s home state of Sinaloa, on Mexico?s north Pacific coast.
Authorities believe, the Mirror reports, that "they are closing the net on the ruthless criminal."
Mario Lopez, the Sinaloa state governor, confirmed that Mexican military forces were carrying out operations in the mountains of the Sierra Madre, over an area that extends from Jesus Maria, a town north of the state capital of Culiacan, all the way to the state borders with Chihuahua and Durango ? a region called the Golden Triangle for its extensive drug cultivation.
?Military personnel from Mexico City are working in the zone,? said Lopez. ?You all know who they?re after.?
According to the Mirror as well as local newspapers, Mexican marines have searched and closed off at least 13 communities in the area, efforts that have forced hundreds of people out of their homes.
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