SAN DIEGO, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Monday offered a $5 million reward for alleged Mexican drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman-Loera, alias "Chapo" Guzman.
Guzman-Loera is wanted in Southern California for conspiracy to import cocaine, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, money laundering and criminal forfeiture.
The reward is offered through the U.S. State Department, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.
In the 1980s, Guzman-Loera was associated with Miguel Angel Felix-Gallardo, alias El Padrino, head of the most powerful drug trafficking group in Mexico at that time, the DEA said.
Guzman-Loera left the El Padrino organization and soon gained notoriety as the head of his own international criminal enterprise, the DEA said.
Guzman-Loera is known for his use of a sophisticated tunnel located in Douglas, Ariz., to smuggle cocaine from Mexico into the United States in the early 1990s.
