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Mexican forces have arrested infamous drug lord Rafael Caro-Quintero nearly a decade after walking out of prison and returning to drug trafficking.
An official with Mexico’s Navy on Friday confirmed Caro-Quintero’s arrest, but provided no further details. Quintero left prison in 2013 after serving 28 years of a 40-year prison sentence for his involvement in the 1985 kidnapping and killing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has maintained that he is not interested in detaining drug lords and prefers to avoid violence.
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Caro-Quintero was the former leader of the Guadalajara cartel, and the DEA alleges that he has returned to drug trafficking and ordered bloody attacks in the northern Mexico border state of Sonora.
Caro-Quintero blamed Camarena for a raid on a marijuana plantation in 1984, allegedly ordering his kidnap the following year. Camarena’s body was found a month later with evidence of torture and abuse.
The FBI added Caro-Quintero to the Top 10 Most Wanted list in 2018 and has offered a reward of up to $20 million for information leading to Quintero’s arrest and/or conviction.
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An appeals court overturned Caro-Quintero’s verdict. The Supreme Court upheld the sentence, but Caro-Quintero had disappeared before the ruling could be applied.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
This is a developing story.
