Mexico on Sunday extradited to america Rodrigo Paez Quintero, the alleged chief of a northwestern Mexican drug cartel and nephew of infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was arrested two years in the past.
Paez Quintero, alias “El R,” was handed over to U.S. brokers on the airport within the central metropolis of Toluca in compliance with a request from a federal court docket in Arizona looking for to prosecute him on prices of felony affiliation and drug trafficking, a federal agent advised The Related Press on situation of anonymity as a result of he isn’t approved to talk publicly.
Based on the Legal professional Basic’s Workplace of the Republic of Mexico, from 2017 to 2019 Páez Quintero was one of many leaders of the Caborca cartel, a drug trafficking group that operated within the northwestern city of Caborca, within the state of Sonora, and directed and supervised drug trafficking and cash laundering actions.
Páez Quintero was arrested in April 2023 within the metropolis of Zapopan, Jalisco state, 9 months after the seize of his uncle Rafael Caro Quintero. The latter was arrested throughout an operation in San Simón, a municipality within the mountains of the northern state of Sinaloa, nearly a decade after leaving jail because of an obvious judicial error and returning to a lifetime of crime.
In March of final 12 months, Mexican authorities extradited Ismael Quintero Arellanes, alias “El Fierro,” to america. He’s additionally Caro Quintero’s nephew and bodyguard. “El Fierro,” who was captured in January 2020, was accused of felony affiliation, carrying weapons, and crimes in opposition to public well being, as he was thought of answerable for manufacturing and distributing marijuana, heroin, and methamphetamines from Mexico to america.
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