Loyalty antitrust guide with 1 million US bounty killed on his head in Mexico

A leader of a notorious Mexican drug cartel, which had a bounty on his head in the United States, died in a collision with army forces, the authorities said on Saturday.

Sinaloa state, in which the powerful cartel of the same name is based, endures a war between Two competing factions This has remained dead since September.

Jorge Humberto Figueroa, who was on the nickname “El Perris”, was shot in a raid on Friday to arrest him, public security wrote secretary Omarcia Haröuch on social media.

The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had offered up to 1 million US dollars for information that led to his arrest of suspicion of fentanyl trade and money laundering.

Figueroa was one of the masters of one infamous collision Haröuch said with the authorities in 2019 in the city of Culiacan.

In this case, cartel members fought against security forces that Ovidio Guzman, a son of the co-founder of Sinaloa Kartell, had arrested Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

At that time, the Mexican authorities left Ovidio Guzman controversial and said they wanted to avoid further bloodshed. But he was finally arrested again in 2023 and delivered to the United States, where he is still custody.

At the beginning of this month, Haröuch confirmed that 17 family members The leaders in the United States recently crossed the antitrust leaders as part of an agreement 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 United States, local media reported.

According to Mexican Press Reports, Figueroa belonged to a Sinaloa cartel faction, which was led by the sons of the older Guzman, who served a lifelong prison sentence in the United States.

This group fought a different faction, which is led by heirs of the cartel co -founder Ismael “El Mayo” Sambadawhich was lured and arrested in a spiked operation in 2024.

The newspaper reforma said The chapitos. After an indictment against in 2023 by the US Ministry of Justice, the Chapitos and their cartel employees used corkscrew, electric shock and hot chillies Torture your rivals While some of their victims were “dead or lively fed”.