Mexico: arrest of one of the most wanted drug traffickers by the United States – Yahoo News

Washington had offered 20 million dollars for his capture. The end of a long hunt. A historic Mexican drug trafficker, who is among the ten most wanted fugitives by the United States, was arrested Friday in Mexico, and Washington has requested his extradition.Rafael Caro Quintero was arrested by Navy agents in the state of Chihuahua, said Mexican media. A source at the Department of the Navy confirmed the arrest to AFP, refusing to give any details. “No place to hide” The 69-year-old Quintero was on the FBI’s 10 most wanted fugitives list for the kidnapping, torture and murder of US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agent Kiki Camarena, in Mexico in 1985, according to the FBI. Washington had offered $20 million for his capture. The US Department of Justice welcomed his arrest on Friday evening, asking that he be extradited to the United States. to hide for those who kidnap, torture or murder representatives of American law enforcement”, assured the minister Merrick Garland in a press release. The Mexican is one of the founding members of the first major drug cartel, that of Guadalajara, at the end of the 1970s. drama. Friday, on the sidelines of the operation, the Navy announced the death of 14 soldiers in the accident of a Black Hawk helicopter “whose cause is unknown”, also in the state of Sinaloa. first time any connection with the arrest of Caro Quintero, the same day in the same region. A few hours later however, the Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador indicated that the 14 soldiers died “after having fulfilled their mission to support those who carried out the arrest order issued against Rafael Caro Quintero”.Read moreFreed in 2013First arrested in 1985, Quintero was tried and sentenced in Mexico to 40 years in prison. A judge released him in 2013 for a matter of legal form. Shortly after, Mexican justice had again called for his capture. The United States had also requested his arrest and extradition for the kidnapping and assassination of Enrique “Kiki” Camarena as well as for drug trafficking. “I did not kidnap him, I did not torture him, I did not kill him”, he defended himself in an interview from hiding to the weekly Proceso in July 2016. “I was at the scene of the crime, this is my only participation”.Rafael Caro Quintero is one of the main characters in the series “Narcos Mexico” which traces in detail the formation of the Guadalajara Cartel, the DEA’s secret war in Mexico , the arrest, torture and murder of Agent Camarena. The leader of the Guadalajara cartel, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, has been in prison since 1989 for the assassination of Kiki Camarena. He denies his participation.Original article published on BFMTV.comVIDEO – Colombia: new violence by the cartel of drug trafficker “Otoniel” after his extradition