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The Mexican drug lord, whose role in ordering the 1985 kidnapping and murder of an American drug enforcement officer was featured in Netflix drama Narcos: Mexico, has been captured.
Rafael Caro Quintero, a notorious co-founder of the ruthless Guadalajara cartel, was behind the torture and murder of 37-year-old DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena.
He spent 28 years in prison for the murder, which was carried out after Camarena and Mexican authorities raided a ranch in 1984 and burned 10,000 tons of marijuana worth $160 million. However, the cartel boss was released by a judge in 2013 due to a legal technical problem.
The verdict was later upheld by the country’s Supreme Court, but by then Caro Quintero had been released and taken away by his associates.
The Mexican Navy said the drug trafficker was found on Friday hiding in undergrowth in the northwestern state of Sinaloa by an army-trained female bloodhound named Max.
In the Netflix show, Caro Quintero was played by Tenoch Huerta Mejia, while the role of Kiki Camarena was taken over by Michael Peña.
Camarena and his pilot, Alfredo Zavala Avelar, were seized by the cartel in February 1985 in Guadalajara. Their bodies were found a month later in plastic wrapped outside a rural ranch.
Drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero
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The attorney general’s office said in a statement Friday that Caro Quintero was being held for extradition at the Altiplano maximum security prison, 80 kilometers west of Mexico City.
US officials say that in January 1985, Caro Quintero also ordered the torture and murder of two US citizens, John Clay Walker, 36, and dental student Albert Radelat, 33.
The pair were out for dinner when they accidentally came across a party being held by Caro Quintero, who mistook them for DEA agents.
He ordered his men to take them to a storage room in the restaurant where they were allegedly tortured with ice picks.
Walker died in the attack, while Radelat may have been alive when the couple was wrapped in tablecloths and buried. Their bodies were found six months later.
The arrest comes just days after Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador met US President Joe Biden at the White House.
“This is huge,” Juan Gonzalez, senior adviser to the White House, Latin America, wrote on Twitter, following news of the drug lord’s arrest.