Notorious leader of the poster with $ 1 million American rewards in the head murdered in Mexico

A leader of a notorious Mexican drug poster who had a reward in the head in the United States has died in a clash with army troops, authorities said on Saturday.

State of Sinaloa, where the powerful poster of the same name is based, is supporting a war between Two rival factions That has left about 1,200 people dead since September.

Jorge Humberto Figueroa, who went through the nickname of “El Perris”, was shot dead on Friday in a raid made to arrest him, wrote Public Security Omar García Harfuch on social networks.

The United States Drug Control Administration (DEA) had been offering up to $ 1 million for information that led to its arrest under suspicion of fentanyl traffic and money laundering.

Figueroa was one of the intellectual authors of a Infamous shock With the authorities in 2019 in the city of Culiacan, said Harfuch.

In that case, the members of the poster fought against the security forces that had arrested Ovidid Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

The Mexican authorities released Ovidio Guzman at that time, saying that they wanted to avoid more bloodshed. But it was finally arrested in 2023 and extradited to the United States, where it remains in custody.

Earlier this month, Harfuch confirmed that 17 family members From the leaders of the poster they recently crossed the United States as part of an agreement between Ovid Guzman and the Trump administration. El Chapo’s ex -wife, Griselda López Pérez, and her daughter were among family members to enter the United States, local media reported.

The reports of the Mexican press say that Figueroa belonged to a faction of the Sinaloa cartel led by the children of Guzman Mayor, who is fulfilling life imprisonment in the United States.

This group has been fighting another faction led by the heirs of the cartel co -founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambadawho was attracted to the United States in a sting operation in 2024 and arrested.

The Reforma newspaper said that Figueroa was a security head of the faction led by the children of Guzman, known as The Chapitos. According to an accusation of 2023 by the US Department of Justice Torture to your rivals while some of their victims were “feeding dead or lives to the tigers.”

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