Helicopter crashing kills 14 and injures one after the arrest of Rafael Caro Quintero. The Mexican navy has arrested the scandalous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero.
The atrocious extreme violence of an American anti-drug agent in 1985 put 69-year-old Quintero on the FBI’s top ten most wanted list.
The City of Choix in the Northwestern State of Sinaloa is where the Kingpin was apprehended. Max, a female bloodhound with training in the military, located him.
The arrest is a result of pressure from the United States. For the law enforcement in Mexico and the US, his detention is a crucial victory.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the drug lord gained attention as a co-founder of the Guadalajara cartel, one of the most prominent drug-trafficking groups in Latin America.
Quintero has crowned the title “the narco of narcos.” The name arises from the abuse and slaughter he inflicted on a former anti-narcotics agent.
Enrique “Kiki” Camarena’s savage murder by Caro Quintero is one of the most infamous assassinations in Mexico’s bloody narco warfare, which earned Quintero a 28-year sentence in jail.
Later, the events were fictionalised in the Narcos: Mexico Netflix series. It was a low moment in US-Mexico collaboration in the 50-year “war on drugs.” Caro Quintero had already denied having any part in Camarena’s slaying.
In 2013, a judge in Mexico exonerated him on a technicality, embarrassing the prior administration. His rapid disappearance and subsequent return to trafficking as a Sinaloa cartel member, according to US authorities, earned him a spot on the FBI’s list of the Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives and a 20 million dollars reward for his apprehension.
“There is no hiding place for anyone who kidnaps, tortures, and murders American law enforcement. We are deeply grateful to Mexican authorities for their capture and arrest of Rafael Caro-Quintero,” said US Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Strangely, after the arrest of the infamous drug lord, a Blackhawk military helicopter crashed in the Northwestern State of Sinaloa, killing 14 people and severely injuring one.
The relation of the helicopter crash to the conviction of the drug lord is not confirmed. The Mexican navy claimed that further investigation is being undertaken.
