Mexico warns US of Neto Fronseca's imminent release

Borderland Beat 

By a court decision, just over a year Rafael Caro Quintero, who was serving a 40-year sentence for the murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena in was freed from prison

He went into hiding.  The action angered Washington, to the point that their pressure forced the Supreme Court, to order the recapture of the former leader of the Guadalajara Cartel for extradition to the United States.

Now,  the  co-defendant and former chief of Caro, Ernesto Don Neto Fonseca, is expected to also be released.  Consequently, while he is in custody, and in Mexico ,  measures are being taken to prevent his leaving early from prison, and vanishing into thin air, the man once  considered Capo. 

 

Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, Don Neto, former leader of the Guadalajara Cartel, will leave prison il in the coming hours or days. To avoid another conflict with the United States, the government of Enrique Peña Nieto asked Barack Obama to enlist a new extradition request "viable" to stop the release.

 "Fonseca Carrillo will soon leave prison.  It's a matter of hours or days. This has already communicated by the government of Mexico to the Department of Justice (American) to prepare an extradition request to immediately take into custody Fonseca Carrillo when he sets  foot outside of prison, the authorities will  stop and re-arrest him  for extradition;”  Supposedly said a senior source of the US.

"It is clear that the government of Mexico does not want another element of  surprise,  for them or for us, as occurred  with the release of Rafael Caro Quintero.  That release, caused friction in the relationship of the two countries and Mexico wants to avoid a repeat," the official said, who relayed the information this week, on the condition of not revealing his name or the federal agency where he works.

On the  morning of August 9, 2013 Caro Quintero-accused in 1985 by the government of Mexico of kidnapping, torture and murder of DEA agent Kiki Enrique Camarena Salazar was released from Puente Grande Prison, after the Second Tribunal Unit of Jalisco Third Circuit gave the green light due to the successful appeal filed by the criminal drug trafficker - 

The release of Caro Quintero- who founded the Guadalajara Cartel with Don Neto and Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo-angered the Obama administration, especially the American Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) because the Mexican government did not informed  them and in finding out after the fact, the country  could do nothing to prevent the former prisoner from going into hiding, before extradition could ensue. 

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