On February 17th, 2014 at around 4 a.m. a coalition of DEA agents and Mexican marines launched an operation to capture Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Intelligence officials had tracked El Chapo to a safe house in the city of Culiacán, and the gunfire heavy raid began when marines busted open the front door with a battering ram.

The mission known as Operation Black Swan was a joint U.S. and Mexican military operation that resulted in the recapture of the Sinaloa Cartel leader, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, following a deadly firefight in the city of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, on January 8, 2016. Officials in the Mexican government announced that the operation was planned and executed by the Mexican Navy Special Forces and that they had originally targeted an important Sinaloa Cartel assassin at a home in Los Mochis, and happened to find Guzmán as well. U.S. government officials announced that members of the United States Army's Delta Force and the United States Marshals Service assisted the Mexican Marines in the January 8th mission.