A Mexican federal judge granted protection to capo Rafael Caro Quintero, arrested last Friday, to prevent his extradition to the United Statesaccording to judicial resolutions available this Monday.
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The Seventh District Court of Amparo in Criminal Matters in the state of Jalisco attended the lawsuit filed by Beatriz Angélica Caro Quintero, sister of the drug trafficker, to avoid “the deportation or expulsion from the country” of the capo, imprisoned since Friday in the prison ” The Altiplano” of the State of Mexico.
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The sister, according to the file, argued that the transfer to the United States, where he is the most wanted capo by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, in English,) would occur “without the corresponding extradition procedure having been followed in accordance with the Treaty of Extradition between Mexico and the United States of America”.
“The suspension is granted outright so that it is not executed and the interested party remains in the place where he is,” indicated the judge’s resolution based on file 507/2022.
The suspension will be in force until the amparo trial is fully resolved, which would have an uncertain duration. and would indefinitely delay his extradition to the United States, where the attorney general, Merrick Garland, demands him “immediately”.
Precisely this Monday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had recognized the existence of amparo trials to protect the capo, arrested last Friday in northwestern Mexico in a joint operation by the Secretary of the Navy (Semar) and the Attorney General’s Office. Republic (FGR).
Founder of the Guadalajara Cartel, Caro Quintero was one of the main capos in
the 1980s.
The Mexican capo is the most wanted by the US DEA for being allegedly responsible for the murder of his agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in 1985.
Founder of the Guadalajara Cartel, Caro Quintero was one of the main capos in
the 1980s and one of the first to ship drugs on a large scale to the United States.
Born on October 3, 1952 in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, cradle of the great Mexican capos, Caro Quintero amassed a great fortune and founded his cartel together with Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, alias “Don Neto”.
The DEA offered $20 million for his capture, the highest amount offered for the arrest of a fugitive by the drug enforcement agency.
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*With information from EFE
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