Cartel boss who murdered DEA agent Kiki Camarena captured in Mexico

The Mexican drug lord whose function in ordering the kidnapping and homicide of a US medicine enforcement agent in 1985 was featured in Netflix drama Narcos: Mexico has been captured by legislation enforcement.

Rafael Caro Quintero, a infamous co-founder of the brutal Guadalajara Cartel, was behind the torture and homicide of 37-year-old DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena.

He spent 28 years in jail for the killing, which was carried out after Camarena and Mexican authorities raided a ranch in 1984 burning 10,000 tons of marijuana value $160m, however was launched by a choose in 2013 on a authorized technicality.

The sentence was upheld by the nation’s Supreme Courtroom however by then Caro Quintero had been freed and whisked away by his associates.

The Mexican navy stated that the drug trafficker was discovered on Friday hiding in shrub land within the northwestern state of Sinaloa by a military-trained feminine bloodhound named Max.

Within the Netflix present Caro Quintero was performed by Tenoch Huerta Mejia, whereas the function of Kiki Camarena was taken on by Michael Peña.

Camarena and his pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar had been grabbed by the cartel in February 1985 in Guadalajara and their our bodies had been discovered wrapped in plastic exterior a rural ranch a month later.

The legal professional common’s workplace stated in a Friday assertion that Caro Quintero was being held for extradition on the most safety Altiplano jail, which is round 50 miles west of Mexico Metropolis.

US officers say that Caro Quintero additionally ordered the torture and homicide of two US civilians, John Clay Walker, 36 and dentistry pupil Albert Radelat, 33, in January 1985.

The pair had been out for dinner after they unintentionally got here throughout a celebration being held by Caro Quintero, who mistook them for DEA brokers. He ordered his males to take them right into a retailer room on the restaurant the place they had been reportedly tortured with ice picks.

Walker died throughout the assault, whereas Radelat should have been alive when the pair had been wrapped in tablecloths and buried. Their our bodies had been discovered six months later.

The arrest comes simply days after Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador met with Joe Biden on the White Home.

“That is big,” White Home senior Latin America adviser Juan Gonzalez wrote on Twitter.