墨西哥城——墨西哥检察官周日宣布，一名被指控为锡那罗亚贩毒集团高级中尉的男子已被引渡至美国。
美国官员多年来一直试图引渡绰号“工程师”的费利佩·卡夫雷拉·萨拉比亚，据称他曾监管过卡特尔大麻在2011年被捕之前，他在北部多山的杜兰戈州和奇瓦瓦州的部分地区开展了行动。
官方宣布的引渡并没有列出他的全名，但是一名联邦官员证实了这一点，他要求匿名，因为没有公开讨论的授权。
官员们说，他被认为是被判有罪的毒品老板乔金·古兹曼的主要助手之一，古兹曼目前在美国监狱服刑
他面临伊利诺伊州北部地区贩毒的指控。
在他被捕的时候，墨西哥军方称卡布雷拉和他的三个兄弟是从大麻种植者和卡布雷拉通过对他的对手使用暴力而在锡那罗亚上升。
被捕一个月后，其中一名兄弟在杜兰戈伊与士兵的枪战中丧生。
Mexico extradites alleged Chapo aide to US
MEXICO CITY -- A man accused of being a senior lieutenant in the Sinaloa drug cartel has been extradited to the United States, Mexican prosecutors announced Sunday.
U.S. officials had been trying for years to extradite Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, nicknamed “The Engineer,” who allegedly had overseen cartelmarijuanaoperations in the mountainous northern state of Durango and part of Chihuahua before his arrest in 2011.
The official announcement of the extradition did not list his full name, but a federal official confirmed it, speaking on condition of anonymity for lack of authorization to discuss it publicly.
Officials said he was considered one of the chief aides to convicted drug boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman, who is in prison in the U.S.
He faces charges of drug trafficking in the Northern District of Illinois.
At the time of his arrest, the Mexican Army7 said Cabrera and three of his brothers began asmarijuanagrowers and that Cabrera rose through the Sinaloa ranks by using violence against his rivals.
A month after his arrest, one of those brothers was killed in a gunfight with soldiers in Durangoi.
