He was added to the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list in 2018.Ĭaro Quintero was one of the primary suppliers of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana to the United States in the late 1970s. He was on the FBI’s most wanted list, with a $20 million reward for his capture through the State Department’s Narcotics Rewards Program. It was too late by then Caro Quintero was spirited off in a waiting vehicle. “So if we weren’t welcome here in Mexico that wouldn’t happen.”Īn appeals court overturned Caro Quintero’s verdict in 2013, but the Supreme Court upheld the sentence.
“I have been in meetings with the foreign minister and with the security Cabinet, along with all our agencies that have included the new head of the DEA sitting at my right hand,” Salazar said. Ambassador Ken Salazar told a gathering of reporters there had been progress in the security relationship. Shortly before Caro Quintero's arrest Friday, U.S. Suspect wanted for the killing of DEA Agent "Kiki" Camarena was arrested in Mexicali. government.Ī very short video segment released by the navy showed Caro Quintero - his face blurred - dressed in jeans, a soaking wet blue shirt and baggy khaki jacket held by both arms by men wearing camfoulage uniforms and carrying assault rifles. There were two pending arrest orders for him as well as an extradition request from the U.S. Mexico’s national arrest registry listed the time of Caro Quintero’s arrest as around midday. The site was in the mountains near Sinaloa's border with the northern border state of Chihuahua. DEA agent in 1985, was captured Friday by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a Mexican prison and returning to drug trafficking, according to the Mexico's navy.Ĭaro Quintero was arrested after a search dog named “Max” found him hiding in brush in the town of San Simon in Sinaloa state during a joint operation by the navy and Attorney General's Office, a navy statement said. Infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S.
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