Mexico extradites security chief for sons of ex-Sinaloa Cartel head El Chapo
Adds Biden statement in paragraph 4
May 25 (Reuters) -Mexico on Saturday extradited to the U.S. Nestor Isidro Perez Salas, or "El Nini," who headed security for the sons of ex-Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, one of the highest profile extraditions in recent years.
Seen by U.S. anti-narcotics agents as among the most ruthless Mexican drug figures, Perez was detained in November by the Mexican National Guard in the northwestern city of Culiacan, the Sinaloa Cartel's heartland.
"We allege El Nini was one of the Sinaloa Cartel's lead sicarios, or assassins, and was responsible for the murder, torture, and kidnapping of rivals and witnesses who threatened the cartel's criminal drug trafficking enterprise," U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.
President Joe Biden thanked Mexico for cooperating.
"Our governments will continue to work together to attack the fentanyl and synthetic drug epidemic that is killing so many people in our homelands and globally, and to bring to justice the criminals and organizations producing, smuggling, and selling these lethal poisons in both of our countries," Biden said in a statement.
The U.S. has accused Perezof leading the "Ninis," a violent group of security personnel working for Ivan Archivaldo Guzman and other sons of jailed former Sinaloa kingpin, El Chapo.
Ivan and three other sons of El Chapo have become some of the most wanted targets for U.S. law enforcement since theyemerged from their father's shadow to head a powerful faction of the Sinaloa Cartel known as "Los Chapitos." The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) alleges Los Chapitos are the biggest fentanyl traffickers to the U.S.
Perez is one of the highest-profile extraditions during the presidency of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who assumed power in December 2018.
DEA chief Anne Milgram sent an internal memo to agency staff praising theextradition.
Milgram, in the memo reviewed by Reuters, described Perez's Ninis outfit as a violent group that receives military-style training and is tasked with "kidnapping, torturing and killing anyone who oppose the Chapitos or anyone who endangers the Chapitos' fentanyl operation."
U.S. courts have indicted Perez on a slew of charges in relation to his alleged role at the helm of the Chapitos' security apparatus, including cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy, possession of machine guns and witness retaliation.
Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Chicago, Drazen Jorgic in Mexico City and Richard Cowan in Washington
Editing by Chris Reese and David Gregorio
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