Edgar Valdez Villareal was a top lieutenant and hit man for Arturo Beltrán Leyva and also led a group of killers responsible for murders carried out by the drug trafficking organization.
CBP officers discovered 12 packages of suspected narcotics worth US$256,000 in a BMW SUV that arrived from Mexico.
He said that declaring unconstitutional to prevent people from smoking marijuana would eventually lead to a similar decision for cocaine and heroin.
Sniffer dogs detected 38 packages of cocaine in the patient's three suitcases.
Federal police said they recovered 23 packages of the drug from the car after it crashed in the town of San Fernando in the northern border state of Tamaulipas.
The Sinaloa cartel leader transported cocaine from Colombia to Mexico, and then to the United States, using various means, according to U.S. court documents.
The contraband was seized during some 30 separate interdictions of drug-running vessels, including two submarines and dozens of small outboard-powered boats called pangas, the Coast Guard said.
The guerrilla group FARC wanted to send it to the Sinaloa Cartel
The pulp was frozen on 120 barrels.
The luggage of the Mexican passenger coming from Bogota, Colombia, showed irregularities when passing through X-rays.