Escaped cartel boss El Chapo was ‘cornered in rugged mountains in Mexico by soldiers’ after US drug agents located his cell phone… but he managed to get away again

Authorities believe they located the notorious cartel boss last week, four months after his incredible escape from prison.

Law enforcement sources told NBC News that US agents were able to pinpoint Guzman’s phone and traced it to the Sierra Madre mountain range, where they believed he was hiding out at a ranch.

Mexican soldiers then stormed the location, but reportedly found only the phone and some clothes.

They have then shut off 13 communities from Jesus Maria – 30 miles north of the state’s capital Culiacan – to the nearby states of Durango and Chihuahua, in order to search the area.

By Dailymail.com Reporters

Published: 16:01 GMT, 15 October 2015 | Updated: 16:49 GMT, 15 October 2015

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The drug kingpin has escaped from maximum security jail cells twice.

Posted: 10/15/2015 05:00 PM EDT

Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, pictured here on a T-shirt in Mexico City, is still at large after escaping from his jail cell in July.

Mexican authorities may be closing in on escaped drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, but they still haven’t announced his capture.

The Mexican military is carrying out operations across the two northern states of Sinaloa and Durango, Sinaloa Governor Mario López Valdez confirmed in a press conference on Wednesday. Some 260 people have been forced from their homes due to the operations, Spanish newswire EFE reports.

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