The attorneys general of the United States and Mexico agreed by phone this Thursday to continue working to achieve the extradition of the drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quintero to US territory, reported the Justice Department.
Merrick Garland called his Mexican counterpart Alexander Gertz Manner to talk about the extradition of the also known as “Narco de Narcos”, who was arrested last week in Mexico.
Caro Quintero, 69 years old and one of the leaders of the late guadalajara cartelis accused of several crimes, including the kidnapping and murder of the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agent “Kiki” Camarena in 1985, due to which Washington offered 20 million dollars for his capture.
Garland and Gertz Manero reaffirmed “their shared commitment to continue working in unison on the extradition of Caro Quintero” and to continue collaborating “in criminal investigations and prosecutions of cross-border crimes,” according to the statement on the occasion of the telephone call.
This Monday a federal judge in Mexico stopped the extradition to the United States of Caro Quintero, with which the request must be settled in a trial.
The capo was captured in 1985 for having ordered the murder of Camarena and sentenced to 40 years in prison, which he served in a Mexican prison until his release in August 2013 on a legal technicality.
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