We are deeply grateful to Mexican authorities for their capture and arrest of Rafael Caro Quintero," Garland said in a statement.īefore extradition, Caro Quintero will be held in Altiplano prison in the state of Mexico, Mexican prosecutors said. "There is no hiding place for anyone who kidnaps, tortures and murders American law enforcement. Attorney General Merrick Garland said he would seek Caro Quintero's immediate extradition. "It is probably one of the most important captures of the last decade in terms of importance to the DEA," said Mike Vigil, the DEA's former chief of international operations. officials put Caro Quintero on the FBI's Top 10 most-wanted fugitives list and put a $20-million US bounty on his head, a record for a drug trafficker. He was released in 2013 on a technicality by a Mexican judge, embarrassing the previous government. The events, dramatized in the 2018 Netflix series Narcos: Mexico, led to a nadir in U.S.-Mexico co-operation in a five-decade "war on drugs."Ĭaro Quintero has previously denied involvement in the killing of Camarena. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique (Kiki) Camarena, one of the most notorious killings in Mexico's bloody narco wars. Murder of Kiki CamarenaĬaro Quintero spent 28 years in prison for the murder of former U.S. He said it had been carrying military personnel who were backing up the team that arrested the kingpin. Lopez Obrador said on Twitter the navy would investigate what caused the crash of the helicopter in the city of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, that killed 14 and left one seriously injured. The arrest comes after pressure from the United States, according to a Mexican official, and the same week President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador met with U.S. "This is huge," White House senior Latin America adviser Juan Gonzalez said on Twitter.Ĭaro Quintero was captured in San Simon in the Sinaloa municipality of Choix after the military-trained female bloodhound named Max found him in shrub land, the navy said.Ĭaro Quintero was found in shrub land in the municipality of Choix in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, the Mexican navy said. The U.S. hailed the arrest and said it would waste no time in requesting his extradition. Marines flushed out Caro Quintero with a bloodhound in a far-flung corner of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, one of Mexico's drug-trafficking heartlands, before the Black Hawk chopper came down as it was about to land further south.Ĭaro Quintero was a co-founder of the Guadalajara Cartel, one of Latin America's most powerful drug-trafficking organizations during the 1980s, and had been among the most prized targets for U.S. anti-narcotics agent in 1985, in a law enforcement coup that also saw the crash of a helicopter used in the mission, leaving 14 military personnel dead. Mexico's navy on Friday captured drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, convicted of murdering a U.S.
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