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The US seeks his extradition / Who is the "narcotics kingpin" who killed the American DEA agent

2022-07-16 09:43:10Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The US seeks his extradition / Who is the "narcotics kingpin" who
Narcotics boss

Rafael Caro Quintero, a drug lord known as the "narco kingpin" who masterminded the 1985 killing of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, has been captured by Mexican forces nearly a decade after being released from prison, according to the Mexican Navy.

Caro Quintero was arrested after a sniffer dog named Max found him hiding in the city of San Simon in Sinaloa state during a joint operation by the Navy and the attorney general's office, a Navy statement said. The place where he was hiding was in the mountains near Sinaloa's border with the northern border state of Chihuahua.

Mexico's national arrest registry listed the time of Caro Quintero's capture at around noon. Two arrest warrants were pending for him as well as an extradition request from the US government.

A very brief appearance in a video released by the Navy showed Caro Quintero - his face blurred - wearing jeans, a wet blue shirt and baggy khaki jacket, being held by both arms by men in uniform in camouflage uniforms and with rifles.

A Navy Blackhawk helicopter carrying 15 people crashed near the coastal town of Los Mochis at the same time, killing 14 of those on board, the Navy said in a statement. Available information indicated that he suffered an "accident", the cause of which has yet to be determined and is not believed to be related to the operation.

The arrest came days after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador met with Joe Biden at the White House.

"This is strong," White House senior Latin America adviser Juan Gonzalez said on Twitter.

Caro Quintero, from La Noria, Sinaloa, is perhaps best known as one of the co-founders of the Guadalajara Cartel. The group's heyday was in the 1970s and 1980s, when it mainly trafficked cocaine, heroin and marijuana from Mexico to the US.

One of the group's hitmen - or "sicarios" - was Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who founded the violent Sinaloa cartel but is now in prison.

Caro Quintero was at one point sentenced to 40 years in prison for kidnapping, torturing and killing a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, in 1985. Caro Quintero believed Camarena was guilty of a plantation operation marijuana a year ago.

In 2013, a Mexican appeals court ruling freed Caro Quintero after serving 28 years. US authorities and Mexican prosecutors were outraged. The Supreme Court overturned the decision.

"I didn't kidnap him, I didn't torture him, I didn't kill him," said the person concerned in an interview he illegally gave to the weekly magazine Proceso in July 2016. "I was at the scene. crime, that was my only involvement."

Rafael Caro Quintero is one of the main characters of the series "Narcos", which deals in detail with the creation of the cartel in Guadalajara, with the secret war of the DEA in Mexico and the kidnapping, torture and murder of the agent Camarena.
The leader of the Guadalajara cartel, Miguel Ángel Félix Gaiardo, has been in prison since 1989 for the murder of Kiki Camarena. He had denied involvement.

US Attorney General Merrick Garland has announced that Washington will request the immediate extradition of Rafael Caro Quintero.

A Mexican official said he would be extradited as soon as possible. Last year, his extradition to the neighboring country was decided after his final appeal was rejected. Mexican authorities' reluctance to proceed with his extradition has caused friction in the past.

His arrest, although no longer considered important in the international drug trade, has great symbolic value. The DEA's former head of foreign operations, Mike Vigil, called it "probably one of the most important of the last decade."

 

 

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