Quintero has been captured nearly a decade after walking out of a Mexican prison and returning to drug trafficking, a source told the Associated Press.
the killing of a U.S. 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.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has maintained that he is not interested in detaining drug lords and prefers to avoid violence. "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."So if we weren't welcome here in Mexico that wouldn't happen."the sentence. It was too late by then; Caro Quintero was spirited off in a waiting vehicle.
"There is no hiding place for anyone who kidnaps, tortures, and murders American law enforcement," U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said."We are deeply grateful to Mexican authorities for their capture and arrest of Rafael Caro Quintero. Today's arrest is the culmination of tireless work by DEA and their Mexican partners to bring Caro-Quintero to justice for his alleged crimes, including the torture and execution of DEA Special Agent Enrique"Kiki" Camarena.
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