Humberto Rivera, a regional leader of Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa Cartel, has been captured and will be handed over to the FBI, Mexican authorities said.
César Jáuregui Moreno, attorney general of Chihuahua, on Feb. 17 confirmed that Rivera, nicknamed “El Viejón” (the Elder), has been transferred to Mexico City, where he awaits extradition proceedings.
Moreno’s office said Rivera was arrested on Feb. 13 in the Valley of Juárez, a borderland long plagued by human and drug trafficking. That is the same area where, last month, U.S. Border Patrol agents on the Texas side of the Rio Grande and Mexican troops came under fire from suspected cartel members.
Rivera is sought by the FBI as a top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, which runs the El Paso–Juárez smuggling corridor. He was also considered the right-hand man of the late cartel boss Gabino Salas Valenciano, known as “El Ingeniero (The Engineer),” who was killed in a 2015 shootout with Mexican federal police.
Rivera’s arrest was led by the Mexican National Guard during a routine traffic stop for speeding. At the time, Rivera was allegedly in possession of multiple fake IDs and two small packages containing what appeared to be cocaine, according to Moreno’s office. […]
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