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.

A powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who has been held in Texas since his arrest in the U.S. over the summer does not oppose being transferred to New York to face charges there, according to a court filing Thursday.

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

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,

Zambada's case to the Eastern District of New York to face drug trafficking and money laundering charges, federal court records show. After that case is decided, he face another trial on similar cartel-related charges in the Western District of Texas in El Paso.

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.