drug trafficking, according to the Mexican government’s national arrest registry.Caro Quintero remains under indictment in Los Angeles for the crime.Caro Quintero and co-defendants were indicted in May 1987 in Los Angeles federal court on conspiracy and racketeering charges related to the kidnapping, torture and murder in Mexico of U.S.
Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena. The brutal murder marked a low point in U.S.-Mexico relations.Caro Quintero, the former leader of the Guadalajara cartel, had since returned to drug trafficking and unleashed bloody turf battles in the northern Mexico border state of Sonora.President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has maintained that he is not interested in detaining drug lords and prefers to avoid violence.In the years since, federal prosecutors have pressed for Caro Quintero's extradition and a warrant was issued so that he might face trial in the United States for the killing.He was captured Friday near the town of San Simón in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, according to news reports.
He was on the FBI's most wanted list, with a $20 million reward for his capture through the State Department's Narcotics Rewards Program.A message sent to a spokesperson for the U.S.