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Jesús Alfredo Salazar Ramírez aka El Muñeco, was accused of being behind the massacre in the Chihuahua town of Creel that left eight dead in 2010.
Jesús Alfredo Salazar Ramírez, El Muñeco, one of the most important operators and lieutenants of the former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, was extradited to the United States, informed the Attorney General’s Office (FGR).
The then Attorney General’s Office (PGR) accused the leader of the Salazar criminal group of being behind the massacre in the Chihuahua town of Creel that left eight dead in 2010.
He was also linked to the death of activist Nepomuceno Moreno Núñez, a member of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD), who was murdered in Hermosillo, Sonora, on November 28, 2011.
He was also implicated in the murder of lawyer Rubén Alejandro Cepeda Leos, a crime committed in November 2011 in Hermosillo. In addition, he ordered multiple executions in the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa and the then Federal District.
A few weeks ago, a Federal Court issued a ruling that left the door open for the Attorney General’s Office to hand him over to the United States, as happened with his father Adán Salazar Zamorano, Don Adán, founder of Los Salazar, who was extradited on August 18 of this year.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas has indicted El Muñeco on charges of criminal association and crimes against health. According to the Attorney General’s Office, in addition to being one of the most important lieutenants of the Sinaloa cartel, he was also involved in the transportation and distribution of cocaine and marijuana in several North American cities.
Jesús Alfredo was handed over at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) to the U.S. agents designated for his final transfer.
El Muñeco’s head worth two million pesos.
Alfredo Salazar was arrested by the Army on November 1, 2012, in the municipality of Huixquilucan, State of Mexico, in compliance with a provisional arrest warrant for international extradition purposes, issued by the Ninth District Court for Federal Criminal Proceedings in the Federal District, on January 13, 2009.
Afterwards, the drug trafficker challenged the extradition granted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) in July 2013, after being requested by the Federal Court of the Western District of Texas. In our country, the then PGR offered a reward of two million pesos for information leading to his location.
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