Cartel drug lord on FBI's most required record arrested in Mexico

Misty Severi

July 15, 07:00 PM July 15, 07:00 PM

Infamous drug lord and Guadalajara Cartel founder Rafael Caro Quintero was arrested in Chihuahua, Mexico, on Friday, a Mexican Navy formal confirmed to multiple information shops.

Caro Quintero, accused of killing a Drug Enforcement Administration officer in 1985, had gone into hiding following staying released from a Mexican jail in 2013, when an appeals courtroom overturned his conviction. He experienced served 28 years of the 40-year sentence at the time.

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The seize came times immediately after President Joe Biden fulfilled with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at the White Dwelling in an energy to repair the United States's marriage with its southern neighbor. Throughout the meeting, the two leaders discussed the circulation of fentanyl into the U.S. Obrador had formerly claimed to have no curiosity in detaining drug lords but has considering that cracked down on drug-operating organizations, together with attempts to control the exportation of fentanyl, a strong opioid that has caused a spike in lethal overdoses in the U.S.

The previous cartel leader was put on the FBI's and the DEA's most desired lists with a $20 million bounty for killing DEA officer Enrique Camarena, who the drug lord considered orchestrated a raid on his cartel in 1984. Nevertheless, Caro Quintero has denied any relationship to Camarena's dying. Friday's arrest came just one calendar year immediately after Caro Quintero misplaced his ultimate charm versus staying extradited to the U.S. to be tried out for Camarena's death.

The Guadalajara Cartel was regarded as one of the most potent drug trafficking businesses in Latin The usa in the 1980s. Caro Quintero himself was an critical provider of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, according to the Involved Press.

Caro Quintero's seize has been an critical aim for numerous presidential administrations on each sides of the political aisle because his release.