Cartel leader with $1 million U.S. bounty on his head killed in Mexico

[Pelican Press 0]

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

Cartel leader with $1 million U.S. bounty on his head killed in Mexico

A leader of a notorious ******** drug cartel who had a bounty on his head in the United States has died in a clash with army troops, authorities said Saturday.

Sinaloa state, where the

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

 of the same name is based, is enduring a war between

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

that has left some 1,200 people dead since September.

Jorge Humberto Figueroa — who went by the nickname “El Perris” — was shot and killed Friday in a raid carried out to arrest him, public safety secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had been

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

for information leading to his arrest on suspicion of fentanyl trafficking and money laundering.

Figueroa was one of the masterminds of an

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

with the authorities in 2019 in the city of Culiacan, Harfuch said.

Jorge Humberto Figueroa / Credit: DEA

In that case, cartel members fought security forces who had arrested Ovidio Guzman, a son of Sinaloa cartel co-founder

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

.

******** authorities controversially released Ovidio Guzman at the time, saying they wanted to avoid further bloodshed. But he ultimately was re-arrested in 2023 and extradited to the United States, where he remains in custody.

Earlier this month, Harfuch confirmed that

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. recently as part of a deal between Ovidio Guzman and the Trump administration.  El Chapo’s ex-wife, Griselda Lopez Perez, and her daughter were among the family members to enter the U.S., 

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

.

******** press reports said Figueroa belonged to a Sinaloa cartel faction run by the sons of the older Guzman, who is serving a life sentence in the United States.

This group has been fighting another faction led by heirs of cartel co-founder

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

, who was lured to the United States in a sting operation in 2024 and arrested.

The newspaper Reforma said Figueroa was head of security for the faction led by Guzman’s sons — known as

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

. According to a 2023 indictment by the U.S. Justice Department, the Chapitos and their cartel associates used corkscrews, electrocution and hot chiles to 

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

 while some of their victims were “fed dead or alive to tigers.”

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

#Cartel #leader #million #U.S #bounty #killed #Mexico

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

For verified travel tips and real support, visit: https://hopzone.eu/