The U.S. Justice Department says a top assassin for the Sinaloa drug cartel who was captured by Mexican authorities last fall has been extradited to the U.S. to face drug, gun and witness retaliation charges. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Nestor Isidro Pérez Salas, also known as “El Nini,” was brought to the U.S. on Saturday.
by Mexican authorities last fall has been extradited to the U.S. to face drug, gun and witness retaliation charges, the Justice Department said Saturday.
posted a $3 million reward for the capture of Pérez Salas, 31. He was captured at a walled property in the Sinaloa state capital of Culiacan last November. At the time of his arrest, Mike Vigil, former head of international operations for the U.S Drug Enforcement Administration, called him “a complete psychopath.”
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