The co-founder of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel agreed on Thursday to be transferred to New York from Texas, where he has been held since his dramatic arrest in late July, to appear in the first of his US drug trials.

The co-founder of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel agreed to be transferred to New York from Texas, where he has been held since his dramatic arrest in late July.

A flurry of new filings Thursday in El Paso federal court appears to have reversed a Wednesday decision by a judge to deny the transfer to New York of Sinaloa cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada,

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, co-founder of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, was arrested along with Joaquín Guzmán López after landing at an airport near El Paso in July.