Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, a top member of the "Los Chapitos" faction of the Sinaloa Cartel was extradited to the United States during the weekend, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced.
Known as "El Nini," the Department of Justice described him as "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." The statement also alleges that he was a part of the cartel's "production and sale of fentanyl, including in the United States."
