The leader of a notorious Mexican drug cartel had a bounty on the head of the United States and died in a clash with the army.
Sinaloa State, the powerful cartel of the same name Two rival factions This has killed about 1,200 people since September.
Public Security Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch wrote on social media that Jorge Humberto Figueroa was shot dead on Friday to arrest his nickname “El Perris.”
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) provided up to $1 million in information to obtain information that led to his arrest on suspicion of fentanyl trafficking and money laundering.
figueroa is one of the masterminds The infamous conflict Harfuch said with authorities in 2019 in the city of Culiaan.
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In this case, the cartel members fought against security forces that arrested Ovidio Guzman, son of the co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
Mexican authorities released Ovidio Guzman at the time, saying they wanted to avoid further bleeding. But he was eventually re-arrested in 2023 and extraditioned to the United States where he was detained.
Earlier this month, Harfuch confirmed 17 family members The cartel leader recently crossed the United States as part of a deal between Ovidio Guzman and the Trump administration. According to local media reports, El Chapo's ex-wife Griselda Lopez Perez and her daughter are family members entering the United States.
Mexican media reported that Figueroa belongs to the Sinaloa cartel faction run by the son of the older Guzman, who serves his sentence in the United States.
This group has been fighting another faction led by the cartel co-founder heir to fight another faction led by the heirs of the cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” ZambadaHe was lured to the United States in a sting operation in 2024 and arrested.
Newspaper reform says Figueroa is the factional security chief led by Guzman's son – called church. According to the 2023 Justice Department indictment, the church and its cartel colleagues use bottle openers, electric and hot peppers for use The competitors who torture them When some of their victims are “feeded to death or to live to tigers.”
