“The Sinaloa cartel operates here, we are a transit point," President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte said.
In February 2014 Heriberto Zazueta was indicted on drug trafficking and money laundering charges in the Northern District of Illinois.
The drug lord walked free in 2013 after a federal court overturned his 40-year sentence in agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena's kidnapping, torture and murder.
Six Honduran National Police officers were charged Wednesday with conspiring with Fabio Lobo, son of former Honduran president Porfirio Lobo, to import drugs into the United States.
Initially the most affected communities were Arroyo Seco, La Tuna and La Palma, but violence soon spread to Huixiopa, La Vainilla and San José del Llano.
The drug lord was flown to Mexico City late Wednesday and then transported to the Altiplano prison outside the capital, the same prison that Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escaped from in 2015.
The drug lord will be sent to the Attorney General Office headquarters (PGR) in Mexico City.
After two of Guzmán's attorneys filed an appeal against the extradition request, a third lawyer quickly disavowed it on Saturday.
A judge granted him "provisional suspension", meaning that the foreign ministry has 48 hours to present a report justifying its decision.
From January 2015 to February 2016 1,079 kilos of cocaine were seized at Mexico City's international airport.