Gerardo Merida Sanchez was arrested in Arizona on May 11 before being transferred to New York.
A former security chief in Mexico’s Sinaloa state has been taken into US custody on allegations linked to the Sinaloa Cartel , according to federal court records and reports unsealed late Thursday.
Gerardo Merida Sanchez, 66, who served as Sinaloa’s public security secretary from September 2023 to December 2024, was arrested in Arizona on May 11 before being transferred to New York.
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He is reportedly due to appear in federal court in Manhattan on Friday and is currently being held at a federal detention facility in Brooklyn.
Merida Sanchez and former Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha were both charged in an indictment…
