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Drug dealer Rafael Caro Quintero, the most wanted capo in the US, has been arrested in Mexico.

Guadalajara cartel founder Caro Quintero was one of the top capos in the 1980s and one of the first to start large-scale drug shipments to the United States. | Font: information

Mexican Rafael Caro Quinteromost wanted fugitive American Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, in English) and who was offered a $20 million reward for information about his capture, was arrested this Friday in the municipality of Guachochi, in the northern state Chihuahua.

According to official sources, 69-year-old Caro Quintero was arrested because the authorities allegedly discovered that he had returned to criminal activity on a minimal scale.

69-year-old capo arrested during the operation Maritime Secretary (Semar), wanted for the 1985 kidnapping and murder of an agent DEA Enrique Camarena, committed in February of the same year, and for other crimes related to drug trafficking and organized crime.

Founder Guadalajara cartelCaro Quintero was one of the top capos in the 1980s and one of the first to bring drugs into the United States in bulk.

Born October 3, 1952 in the Mexican state Sinaloathe cradle of the great Mexican capos, Caro Quintero, who made a huge fortune, founded his cartel with Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, also known as “Don Neto”.

The arrest of Caro Quintero comes just days after Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador met with his US counterpart Joe Biden.

Mexico: Rafael Caro Quintero, US's most wanted drug lord arrested.
Footage from a video provided by the Federal Preventive Police (PFP) dated January 6, 2005, showing Rafael Caro Quintero being monitored in the Puente Grande prison in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. | Font: EFE / Federal Preventive Police

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At the end of November 2019, a Mexican federal judge issued a capo an injunction against extradition to USAwhere he was required to kill the agent DEA in 1985.

While early October Supreme Court of the Nation (SCJN) denied amparo against extradition to a fugitive drug dealer because he was released from prison in 2013 by a court order that was later overturned.

After, Caro Quinterowho had been imprisoned from 1985 to 2013, was released in a decision that was later overturned.

USA In April 2018, he filed a new criminal case against the capo as guilty of kidnapping, torturing and murdering Camarena’s agent.

Drug dealer Rafael Caro Quintero, the most wanted capo in the US, has been arrested in Mexico.

Mexico Arrests Drug Dealer Rafael Caro Quintero, US’s Most Wanted Drug Lord | Font: AFPTV / MEXICO GOVERNMENT / Federal Preventive Police / AFP

US authorities have offered a $20 million reward to anyone who provides information that will allow them to find and capture Caro Quinterorecognized as the head of a criminal enterprise.

After his release from prison, authorities assume that he joined the ranks of the drug cartel. Sinaloa and was involved in drug trafficking, a reason that motivated USA Decided to open a new process in the Eastern District Court of the city of St. New Yorkthe one in which Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was tried.

(As reported by EFE)

Source: RPP

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