Mexico on Thursday carried out the extraditions of 29 cartel figures including notorious drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero to the United States.

Andrew Clark, who federal prosecutors say a leader in sprawling international narco-trafficking network that stored its drugs for distribution in L.A., was returned to the U.S. from Mexico Friday to f

Several cartel operatives said that for the first time in years, they genuinely feared arrest or death at the hands of the authorities.

"Caro Quintero, a cartel kingpin who unleashed violence, destruction, and death across the United States and Mexico, has spent four decades atop DEA's most wanted fugitives list, and today we can proudly say he has arrived in the United States where justice will be served," DEA Acting Administrator Derek S. Maltz said in a press release.

Federal prosecutors say a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa cartel who was indicted along with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been extradited to El Paso from Mexico.

The handover of so many significant cartel figures was one of the most important efforts by Mexico in the modern history of the drug war to send traffickers to face charges in U.S. courts.

The leader of Mexico's H-2 drug cartel was known as "Diabolic," "James Bond" and "Xmen," according to prosecutors.

"Mr. Zambada doesn't want to go to trial and is willing to accept responsibility for a charge that doesn't carry out the death penalty," said the drug lord's lawyer Frank Perez

Jesus Ricardo Patron Sanchez took over his Mexican drug cartel after his brother was killed — and is now facing the music alone after getting locked up in Brooklyn, federal prosecutors said.

Federal Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero told reporters Tuesday that Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada has asked Mexico for repatriation.

Mexico has extradited notorious drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero and 28 other fugitive cartel members to the United States, according to the US Department of Justice.

American officials say the United States has recently begun expanding ... Last week, Mexican forces arrested two big players within the Sinaloa cartel who were close associates of Iván Archivaldo ...