More than a decade after his arrest in Mexico, a top narcotics distributor for the infamous Sinaloa cartel who was indicted in Chicago after negotiating a heroin deal with West Side twins Pedro and Margarito Flores was sentenced Tuesday to more than 19 years in prison.

       Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, 53, a former cattle rancher nicknamed “The Engineer,” was extradited to the U.S. in 2020 after spending nearly nine years in custody in Mexico, where his attorneys said he was often in solitary confinement and subjected to torture.

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       He pleaded guilty earlier this year to one count of narcotics trafficking, admitting in a plea agreement with prosecutors that he distributed more than 150 kilograms of cocaine and more than 30 kilograms of heroin for the Sinaloa cartel, then headed by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.