DOJ Announces Top Mexican Assassin Extradited to US to Face Charges

US officials previously had offered a $3 million reward for information leading to El Nini’s capture.

Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, also known as "El Nini." Drug Enforcement Administration

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a top assassin for the Sinaloa Drug Cartel in Mexico was extradited to the United States to face charges.

In a May 25 statement from the DOJ, Attorney General Merrick Garland said that Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, known as “El Nini,” was taken to the United States, noting that he was one of the cartel’s top “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.”