Mexico has extradited 2 of its top drug kingpins to the US. One of these suspects is believed to be a major cocaine distributor.

According to an official statement released from the Attorney General's Office on Sunday, the suspect's names were Cesar Gastelum Serrano and Pedro Alejandro Rubio Perez, Yahoo News reports.

Serrano was arrested by the Mexican authorities earlier in April of this year at the resort of Cancun, the official statement said. On the other hand, Rubio Perez was arrested back in 2013 on both drug and organized crime charges.

Additionally, Serrano was named as "one of the most prolific cocaine suppliers for Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel" by the U.S. Treasury Department in December of last year. The Sinaloa Cartel, which is the most dominant drug trafficking ring in Mexico, was run by the infamous Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who had recently escaped a maximum-security detention center in Mexico. Guzman was known as the "Osama Bin Laden" of drug trafficking.

Press TV further reports that Serrano was involved in heading a vast criminal network to lead a cocaine trafficking organization that will move tons of cocaine through Honduras and Guatemala to Mexico.

According to an earlier report with CNN, the heroin epidemic is mostly supplied thanks to the Sinaloa Cartel. Addicts are looking to the Mexican drug because they could get it at a cheaper deal

Mexico has seen eight years of drug violence and has also seen two Mexican presidential administrations, but this has left little change on the country's fight against drugs. Mexico's drug cartels have thus far shown few signs that they are waning in power.

Former President Felipe Calderon and his successor, Enrique Pena Nieto, had come into a series of high profile drug wars against Mexican cartels. These drug wars had only become a trigger for nationwide violence and did not seem to come close to bringing down Mexico's drug traffickers.

Just last month, Mexico had also extradited 13 drug traffickers to the US, including Texas born drug-lord Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez. The U.S. had also planned to hand over suspects that are wanted by the Mexican government.

Mexico had initially refused extradition requests from the United States of top drug cartel kingpins, including El Chapo.

The United Stated wanted Mexico to extradite him after his arrest in February 2014, but the Mexican government refused, wanting to try El Chapo under their own laws.