He was wanted to stand trial for the 1985 kidnapping, torture, and murder of a DEA officer in Mexico.
The Secretary of the Navy (Semar) of Mexico would have arrested this Friday one of the founders of the extinct Guadalajara Cartel, Rafael Caro Quintero, who is one of the 10 most wanted fugitives by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI, for his acronym in English), according to local media reports.
According to federal government sources, Navy agents detained Caro Quintero in the town of Guachochi, in the Sierra Tarahumara of the state of Chihuahua, in northwestern Mexico.
The drug trafficker is wanted to stand trial for the 1985 kidnapping, torture and murder of US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officer Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena Salazar, an undercover agent operating in Mexico.
In addition, Caro Quintero is accused in the US of violent crimes in support of organized crime; and criminal association to commit violent crimes in support of organized crime.
The US State Department’s Narcotics Rewards Program was offering a $20 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Caro Quintero.
In 1985, Caro Quintero was arrested in Costa Rica, transferred to Mexico and imprisoned. After 28 years in prison, he was released in 2013 on a legal technicality. A short time later, the Mexican justice ordered his capture once more, but the fugitive had already disappeared.
The arrest of the founder of the Guadalajara Cartel occurred three days following the meeting between the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and his American counterpart, Joe Biden, held at the White House in Washington DC.
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