The officials, who make up the Security Implementation Group between Mexico and the United States (GIS), also spoke of accelerate extraditions and transfers of “high-value criminal targets”reported the US State Department.
Furthermore, the two countries agreed implement “two key initiatives” to combat illegal unmanned aerial systems, like drones, before this year’s main sporting events, such as the Soccer World Cup.
The meeting closed a week with several arrests in Mexico of criminals wanted by the United States.
The previous Saturday, Omar García Harfuch, Mexican Secretary of Security, reported on the capture of Alejandro Rosales Castillo, one of the 10 most wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The arrest occurred in Pachuca, Hidalgo by elements of his department and the Attorney General’s Office (FGR).
Three days later, on Tuesday, January 20, Harfuch announced that 37 members of criminal organizations, who were already imprisoned in the country, were transferred to the United States, which claimed them after describing them as main “narcoterrorists.”
