U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the man was leading a drug trafficking organization across several states.

Heriberto Salazar Amaya, a Mexican national, was arrested last week in Salem and identified by federal prosecutors as one of the leaders of the alleged drug ring.

In what federal authorities are calling the “largest fentanyl bust in DEA history,” law enforcement officials have arrested 16 individuals and seized over three million fentanyl-laced pills, dismantling a major drug trafficking network linked to Mexico’s violent Sinaloa cartel,