“El Nini”, the accused safety chief of “Los Chapitos”, pleads not responsible in a New York court docket – El Common

N.Y. The suspected safety chief of the Sinaloa Cartel, Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, ‘El Nini’, introduced this previous Thursday harmless of drug trafficking, homicide, kidnapping, weapons and cash laundering, which the USA accuses him of, in a listening to in New York Metropolis.

Pérez, who was extradited from Mexico final Saturday, six months after his arrest in that nation, entered the courtroom a couple of minutes earlier than 3:00 pm (7:00 pm GMT) when whose listening to was recorded, along with a bailiff, along with his fingers chained to his waist and chains on his toes, which hindered his motion.

When he entered the room, wearing his jail uniform, khaki pants and a lightweight inexperienced shirt, he stopped in entrance of his sisters, who have been within the second row of seats, and one in all them blew him a kiss and he stated “the cash is deposited”, after which they exchanged some expressions.

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When requested by EFE about her relationship with the accused, the younger lady didn’t wish to speak, though she admitted that they have been associated, which was later revealed as sisters.

“Mother and Dad love you,” one in all his two siblings later stated from their seats in a federal courtroom for the listening to. south the big apple areathe place the Mexican shall be tried, to which Pérez replied: “Me too, inform them I am high quality,” they usually couldn’t stop the tears from showing whereas issue drag his fingers once more.

The accused, one of the crucial wished in the USA, who provided him a reward of three million {dollars} seizesat subsequent to the lawyer assigned by the court docket, who, by way of the translator, spoke to his consumer for a couple of minutes.

The accusations are in opposition to a Mexican, with black hair and a beard and who is taken into account one of many prime safety administrators of the Los Chapitos, the poet’s kids Joaquín Guzmán Loera alias ‘El Chapo’, the founding father of the The Sinaloa Quarter which supplies life sentences in the USA, in two information and a part of that data is sealed, in accordance with Choose Katherine Polk Failla, who presided over the listening to.

The Justice of the Peace requested him if he had been given a replica of the indictment in Spanish and if he had learn it, to which he replied “Sure.” The defendant refused to learn the fees he was already aware of and when requested, pleaded not responsible.

Learn additionally: US Legal professional Normal thanks Mexico for extradition of “El Nini”, safety chief for “Los Chapitos”

In keeping with the indictment, in October 2023, Pérez Salas, along with different hitmen who have been concerned beneath his management, kidnapped an informant from United States Drug Enforcement Company (DEA) and 10 different folks in Mexico, together with a US citizen, who he believed labored for or have been associated to a confidential supply.

Pérez and his hitmen killed eight of the ten folks, together with a DEA informant and a 13-year-old boy, in accordance with the indictment, which additionally signifies that he launched and commerce it too. fentanyl.

His prices additionally embody obstruction of justice by way of the homicide of the informant, kidnapping which resulted within the loss of life of eight folks, together with a minor, firearms and cash laundering offences.

The decide set the following listening to for September 5.

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