Search Dog Jian Gong! Mexico’s “drug lord of drug lords” was arrested, and the dwarf Guzman also obeyed him. (Archyde.com, European News Agency, this newspaper combined.)
2022/07/16 19:04
[Compiled by Guan Shuping/Comprehensive Report]Rafael Caro Quintero, a Mexican drug lord on the FBI’s top ten most wanted list, was arrested in Mexico on the 15th. Quintero, known as the “drug lord of drug lords,” is suspected of being the mastermind in the 1985 murder of an undercover agent of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The Mexican navy said that during the joint operation that day, it was a search dog who found Quintero hiding in the bushes and was able to arrest the drug lord.
The Mexican Navy and the Attorney General’s Office carried out a joint operation in the town of San Simon (San Simon) in the northern state of Sinaloa (Sinaloa) on the 15th and arrested Quintero at about noon. Quintero was carrying two arrest warrants and the U.S. government Extradition request. Mexico’s attorney general’s office said he will be temporarily imprisoned at the highest-security central Altiplano prison.
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The Mexican Navy released a video of Quintero’s appearance when he was arrested. He was wearing jeans, a blue T-shirt with a soaked upper body, a khaki jacket, and his arms were held by armed military personnel in camouflage uniforms. The arrests came a day after a military Black Hawk helicopter crashed in the state, killing 14 people.
Quintero is the co-founder of the Guadalajara cartel in Mexico, which was a major source of heroin, cocaine, marijuana and other drugs smuggled into the United States during its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s. ; Another notorious drug lord from Quintero’s hometown, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the former leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel who was sentenced to life in prison and is serving a sentence in the United States, was a former member of the group. ‘s killer.
Quintero was originally sentenced to 40 years in prison for plotting the kidnapping and killing of undercover U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration operative Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in 1985, but was overturned by an appeals court, allowing him to serve in prison. He was released from prison in 2013 after 28 years. Camarena was brutally abused during his kidnapping, and the case once soured U.S.-Mexico relations. The Court of Appeal overturned the original judgment, which made the judicial authorities of the United States and Mexico indignant. Although it was overturned by the Supreme Court of Mexico, Quintero has disappeared.
The United States accused Quintero of returning to his old business after his release from prison and setting off a bloody turf war in Sonora, a state in northern Mexico that borders the U.S. border. The FBI placed him on its 10 most wanted list with a $20 million reward.
Although Quintero is no longer a major player in international drug smuggling, his arrest still has a symbolic impact on the United States and Mexico. Alejandro Hope, a Mexican security expert, said the incident showed a remarkable level of cooperation between the two countries. “Without the involvement of the DEA, such arrests would be unimaginable.”
Juan Gonzalez, senior White House Latin America adviser, said Quintero’s arrest was “a big deal”; Mike Vigil, former director of international operations at the Drug Enforcement Administration, said, “In terms of importance to the DEA, it may be It is the arrest of one of the most important criminals in the past 10 years.” U.S. and Mexican officials have said they will extradite him to the United States as soon as possible.
Mexican drug lord Quintero 15 sunset net. (European News Agency)
Mexican drug lord Quintero is on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list. (Archyde.com)
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