Caro Quintero, the most wanted Mexican narco by the US, falls

In an operation led by the Mexican Navy, drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quintero was arrested, one of the most wanted men by the DEA who accuses him of the murder of one of his agents in the 1980s, an official from the institution and a federal government source.

The 69-year-old capo, a member of the so-called “old school” and one of the founders of the Guadalajara cartel, had been on the run since January 2015 when a Mexican court ordered his recapture and charged him again with the murder of US agent Enrique “Kiki”. ” Camarena, a year and a half after being released.

“It’s affirmative,” said a Mexican Navy official who asked that his name be withheld. The sailor added that Caro, nicknamed “the drug dealer” was arrested in the town of Guachochi, located in the northern state of Chihuahua.

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