Francisco Reséndiz Neri, Seventh District Judge for Amparo in Criminal Matters in Jalisco, granted an outright suspension to the drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quinterowhich prevents the Mexican government from extraditing him to the United States without having completed the extradition process.
An clerk attached to the Ninth District Court for Amparo and Federal Trials in the State of Mexico, residing in Toluca, appeared at the facilities occupied by the Federal Center for Social Readaptation Number One “Altiplano”, where he met Caro Quintero, whose amparo claim was ratified, promoted in his favor by his sister Beatriz Angélica Caro Quintero.
“The suspension is granted outright, so that it is not executed and the interested party remains in the place where he is at the disposal of this jurisdictional organ of amparo, only in what refers to his personal freedom, until resolve this amparo trial,” determined the judge residing in the Puente Grande prison, Jalisco.
Beatriz Angélica Caro Quintero, the drug trafficker’s sister, filed the amparo appeal, and the judge registered it that way. She argued that the Mexican government intends to extradite her brother without complying with the corresponding procedure under the extradition treaty with the United States.
The judge also granted a flat suspension to Rafel Caro Quintero to prevent the drug trafficker from being held incommunicado inside the Altiplano prison, where he has been held since last Friday.
This Monday morning, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed that Caro Quintero’s defense had filed several amparo appeals since Saturday to prevent his extradition. event that the president said he did not know when it will occur.
The United States is seeking his extradition to prosecute him for various crimes, such as drug trafficking, as well as the torture and murder of DEA special agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena.
AMLO He denied that US DEA agents had participated in the arrest operation last Friday of the drug trafficker.
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