Who is ‘El Nini’, the head of security for ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s children detained in Sinaloa?

Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, known as ‘El Nini’ and accused of being head of security for Los Chapitosthe criminal group of the children of the Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, was arrested on Wednesday in the city of Culiacán, state of Sinaloa. The United States offered a reward of 3 million dollars for his capture.

‘El Nini’ was captured after a strong operation by the Mexican Armed Forces and National Guard in Culiacana city where helicopters and ground personnel were deployed, Mexican media reported.

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After his arrest, he was placed on a plane and taken to the Specialized Organized Crime Prosecutor’s Office (Femdo) in Mexico City.

Mexican army soldiers guard the headquarters of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime (Femdo), after the capture and transfer of El Nini. (EFE/Isaac Esquivel). (Isaac Esquivel/)

According to the Mexican press, ‘Nini‘was being tracked in recent weeks at different points in the Culiacan. During search operations, some of their homes and farms were raided. Bengal tigers were found in one of them.

The prison of ‘Nini‘occurs a month later Mexico and the United States agreed to redouble efforts against trafficking fentanylsynthetic opioid introduced in the USA by Los Chapitosone of the factions of Sinaloa Cartel.

Authorities feared an outbreak of violence in Culiacan for the capture of ‘Nini‘. The reason? FOR Perez Salas He is attributed with the strategy of the so-called ‘culiacanazo’, the criminal uprising due to the operation in which federal forces arrested, on October 17, 2019, Ovid GuzmanEl Chapo’s youngest son, who was released hours later due to the wave of violence unleashed by Sinaloa Cartel.

But this Thursday, Culiacan was tensely calm, local newspaper El Debate reported. In the morning, the flow of vehicles decreased by 50% and there was little footfall in commercial areas.

The reward that the United States offered to Ovidio Guzmán.

According to the National Registry of Arrests from the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas He is 30 years old, has white skin, medium skin, beard and mustache, brown hair and is 1.70 meters tall.

The government of U.S points out that ‘El Nini’ received training military when he responded directly to Sinaloa Cartel. The training included urban warfare, use of special tactical weapons and mastery of snipers. This subsequently made it easier for him to perform his security duties. Los Chapitos.

According to the United States Department of State, ‘Nini‘He works directly for the top lieutenant of Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar (eldest son of ‘El Chapo’), Oscar Noé Medina González.

Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas after being arrested. (Sedena).

Mexican newspaper El Universal reported that ‘Nini‘He tried to avoid arrest in the style of Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, fleeing through the roofs of homes on Villa de Choix street, in Colinas de la Rivera, north of Culiacán.

The media added that just two shots on the roof of a second floor were enough for him to surrender and be arrested by elements of the armyO Air ForceO Marine and the National guard. More than 200 agents and two Black Hawk helicopters.

According to a report from journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva’s program on Radio Formula, a ‘Nini‘1,000 pills were seized fentanyla long gun, a short gun, grenade launcher components and cartridges.

El Chapo Guzman. (AFP).

David Saucedo, a national security expert and political analyst, told El Universal that The capture is a heavy blow for the Los Chapitos faction.

He highlighted that the fall of ‘El Nini’ means that The United States government is not satisfied with the arrest and extradition of Ovidio Guzmán nor with the reduction in fentanyl shipments to that country.

Within the Sinaloa Cartel, Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, in charge of your group The NEETSmaintained a rivalry with The Russiansresponsible for security Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada Garcíahistorical leader of this cartel and who always remained discreet.

Los Rusos plays less prominently than Los Ninis, but has a high level of aggression, highlights El Universal.

The Mexican newspaper explained that the dispute broke out on November 25, 2019, when Los Rusos beat 11 Culiacán municipal police officers, who were protecting Los Chapitos.

“From then on, both groups disputed control over the production and sale of synthetic drugs in the Culiacan“, according to military intelligence documents from March 2020 that were revealed by the group’s hack Macaw The Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena).

The same documents indicate that ‘Nini’ He cared for young people between 20 and 35 years old and with a “violent profile”.

The United States offered $3 million for information to capture El Nini.

In February 2021, a federal judge from A.D accused Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking, as well as possession of weapons and explosives. While this year, another New York court indicted him on drug trafficking crimes. fentanyl and money laundering, as well as possession of machine guns and other destructive devices.

According to the first indictment, from at least 2012 until February 2021, Pérez Salas allegedly conspired to distribute and manufacture cocaine and methamphetamine for illegal importation into the United States, used a firearm to promote the alleged crime of drug trafficking and killed, attempted to kill, threatened and caused bodily harm to another person to intimidate a witness and a government informant.

The DEA considers Sinaloa Cartel responsible “to a large extent” for the trafficking of fentanyl to the United States in recent years.

The arrest of ‘Nini’ It comes a week after the visit of the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), to Badiraguato, Sinaloaand San Francisco, California. In the United States, the Mexican president met with his counterpart Joe Biden, and with the president of China, Xi Jinping.

In Mexico, AMLO spoke about agreements with both countries to combat drug trafficking. fentanyl.

AMLO also denounced that the chemical precursors of fentanyl They arrive in Mexico from China, although Beijing has assured it that it has its ports under control.

“They claim they have control of their ports. However, no fentanylbut chemical precursors from China were seized in Mexico and we have this information, and they are helping and will continue to support”, he guaranteed.

AMLO stated that, during his meeting with Xi, he saw that in China “they are aware, he is very aware, that we must work together to prevent chemicals from arriving, the drugs that become fentanyl and that it is very harmful.”

Source: Elcomercio