Mexico arrests alleged security chief for the ‘Chapitos’ wing of the Sinaloa drug cartel

This frame grab from video, provided by the Mexican government, shows Ovidio Guzman Lopez being detained in Culiacan, Mexico, in October 2019. Fentanyl is blamed in at least 1,825 deaths in Cook County last year. (Associated Press)

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s National Guard officers on Wednesday arrested the hyper-violent, alleged security chief for the “Chapitos” wing of the Sinaloa drug cartel.

The Public Safety Department’s arrest registry says Nestor Isidro Pérez Salas was detained about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at a walled property in the Sinaloa state capital of Culiacan. The department listed his alias as “El Nini.”