Mexican authorities captured a son of the country's most-wanted drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Thursday in northwestern Mexico, the Navy said in a statement.

Marine troops took Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar in custody early Thursday in Zapopan, a small town near Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco state.

Both he and his father are wanted on drug trafficking charges.

Guzman Salazar, 26, was accompanied by another person and the two were flown to the organized-crime division of the Attorney General's Office (Siedo) in Mexico City, according to the statement.

The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed financial sanctions against Guzman Salazar, his mother Maria Alejandrina Salazar Hernandez, and his two other brothers, Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar and Ovidio Guzman Lopez.

Chapo Guzman, Mexico's most-wanted drug lord and founder of Sinaloa cartel, had been captured by Mexican authorities and jailed in a maximum security prison in Jalisco. He escaped in January 2001 by hiding in a laundry truck.