A reader reminded me of the wanted billboards erected in search of Rafael Caro Quintero. I only knew of those posted in June in Arizona and Texas, the reader commented that they were also in Los Angeles in various points, I checked and he/she is correct. Readers may recall the defacing of two DEA billboards in El Paso. (photo below)
From DEA:
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) unveiled a billboard in Phoenix, Arizona seeking information for the capture of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro-Quintero. The new reward is being offered by the U.S. Department of State under the Narcotics Reward Program for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Caro-Quintero, who kidnapped, tortured and murdered DEA Special Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in 1985.
Caro-Quintero had served 28 years of a 40-year prison term for his crimes when a Mexican court ordered his release on August 9, 2013 on procedural grounds. Caro-Quintero is a fugitive from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on felony murder, felony kidnapping, and other criminal charges. Caro-Quintero was the mastermind of the atrocious acts against Special Agent Camarena, and DEA will vigorously continue its efforts to ensure that Caro-Quintero faces charges in the United States for the crimes he committed.
Similar billboards are being placed in El Paso, Texas, San Diego, and Los Angeles, California.
Today from Los Angeles Register:
A new billboard has joined I-5’s usual lineup of signs touting casinos, concerts, and cows inviting you to “eat mor chikin.”
This one’s a little grimmer than most: Three grainy mug shots stare down, and the text promises a “REWARD of up to $5,000,000.00 USD” for tips leading to the arrest of notorious Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero.
The billboard is part of a Drug Enforcement Administration program, to turn billboards into modern-day “wanted” posters officials hope will help them track down Caro Quintero.
Los Angeles County’s Caro Quintero billboard is on the southbound I-5 after the Slauson Avenue/Montebello exit near the city of Commerce.
The $5 million reward is being offered by the DEA under the Narcotics Reward Program, which was created by Congress to find violators who transport drugs into the United States.
People with information about Caro Quintero can call 866-629-6036 or email CAROQUINTEROTIPS@usdoj.gov
Viva el senor r1!
ReplyDeleteRacism will never stop white people from ruining the lives of other races ...100 percent truth dont kid your self if your not white they dont like us they see us as inferior and dirty but fuk them I won't vow down to no one
DeleteThere's some in phoenix to, they have been up for about 3 months now. If the U.S. wants him you better believe that they will get him soon. Everyone already knows that though, just look at chapo, bin Laden, chapo sons, mayo's son and the list goes on and on with these stupid ass narcos and terrorist. Real spit..
ReplyDeleteThey haven't gotten any of chapos sons ? Lol dummmmmmmmm
DeleteThe U.S needs to lock Obama up, that's the real terrorist. He's a joke.
DeleteWhere in phoenix? I want check them out and take a foto
DeleteAt 10:42 maybe you can call the Ferguson police department, they will take care of him.
DeleteOk, your right,they haven't got chapos sons yet. But they got 2 of mayo zambadas sons. Same shit different toilet. The billboard of caro is on grand, you could see it going east on the left before you exit to 27 ave
DeleteIvan Archivaldo was locked up 3years, a while back
DeleteHe was let out for a reason to take control of everything for the Mexican government and reorganize the drug trade in Mexico viva el r1!
ReplyDeleteYeah viva El R1, but behind bars! Solitary Confinement!
DeleteViva el senor r1!
ReplyDeleteIf he quietly retires, I have no problem with him being free after 30 years. If he has started slinging again, I hope they catch him.
ReplyDeleteHe wont go back to it, he's a business man and many companies in mexico belong to him.. He was smart enough to invest his money out of the drug world
DeleteHe is tuta says caro be suppling weapons and armored cars to mencho
DeleteTuta is making that up to take the heat off of him. I seriously doubt Caro is supplying anyone with weapons after 28 locked up. Most of his connections are probably long gone. Tuta is full of shit.
DeleteI believe DEA and CIA are protecting RCQ, and this is just a publicity stunt.
ReplyDeletethey know where he is all these bastards are corrupts
DeleteGood luck with that gringos jajajajaaja
ReplyDeleteHes a bum in dlta i seen him in da alleys
ReplyDeleteDowntown Los angeles
ReplyDeleteYes there is a billboard off the 5 freeway. Off of Atlantic before the 710 exchange.
ReplyDeleteRAFAEL CARO QUINTERO I hope they never katch you or the people's 4rm C.D.J N ASSOCIATES 4 that matter:) when it's all said N done everybody plays a role N the drug trade 4rm the good OLD U.S.A 2 Mexico's garbage government 2 the whole planet.to much FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES that kant be ignored
ReplyDeleteHe didn't kill Kiki camarena the dea and CIA were the ones who killed him because Kiki tried to go against the dea for letting cartels transport drugs through every borderline and any way possible
ReplyDeleteThe DEA and the US are dirty, why are americans so dumb or don't want to admit it. We are honest we admit we are dirty.
DeleteNo one care or does nothing, in white America. Shit people in MX dont care or do nothing about GOV corruption # freedrmireles
DeleteIf he tortured your loved ones would u feel the same? just curious
ReplyDeleteNot if they deserved it.
DeleteFree Felix Gallardo he has paid his dues. Let the old man live the rest of his days out. When Gallardo was set up up by DEA and his close friends.
ReplyDeleteGallardo had every thing under ground. Like how it's really has to be.
So sad! Now you feel bad for some scum Narcos? What about all of the innocent victims? Screw all of these dirty ass Narcos! They should all be in jail!
DeleteReal Narcos dont have "victims" they have buisness associates. You're thinking organized crime, as in people who extort and murder innocent people. Narcos are buisness men their buisness isn't legal so they can't sue.te result: if you can get more time for drugs than rape or murder, then in my eyes and the blind eyes of justice ,that makes murder less heinous. I say they should all be free men. Drugs should be legalized and people like you shoul be better educated about this war on drugs that has become a war on the people. I dont feel bad for them I feel sorry for you.
DeleteViva la marina orale tetaz salganle al topon!!! Traidores d la patria desertores narcoterrorist dumb trash tetaz uall dont deserve mercy from epns soft punishments hang em high I say uall gay mugrozaz stinky pigs!!
ReplyDeleteWhy advertise in the US? I am sure he is is Mexico or South America and has learned from others recent mistakes, and would not enter the US. And after actually being caught, and serving serious time, would be as serious about this as any criminal in the world. I don't get it.
ReplyDeleteNo one believes the five million reward, they would have better luck with offering ten grand. The US feds wouldn't pay up, never have. A witness would have a tragic accident and an informant CI would just disappear.
ReplyDeleteI doubt the U.S. govt. would want to catch El R-1 since he can divulge information on former important figures of the U.S. govt. and his dealings with them. Carp Quintero could talk about the secrets of U.S. govt. officials and their participation in the international drug trade. We are talking about officials who had federal agents killed just like supposedly Caro Quintero had Kiki Camarena killed. It doesn't benefit the DEA, CIA, and the secret service to have El R-1 captured unless it's in a body bag. Then again I'm sure ex-Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega had secrets too and the U.S.govt. and media managed to censor him. I believe Caro is still involved in the drug trafficking game and I believe he never stopped even in prison.
ReplyDeleteMaybe not all of the DEA and CIA is corrupt! And some actually do want to do the right! Don't be so pessimistic! There are good people in this world!
DeleteChapo snitched
ReplyDeleteFucking culos leave don caro alone he served his time
ReplyDelete--rafail caro quintero served 28 years of his sentence
ReplyDelete--juan ramon matta ballesteros served 20 years, the US freed him
--felix ismael rodriguez aka max gomez, CIA agent, served no time
--lt col oliver north, vietnam war hero, served no time
--george hw bush, former CIA and vp of the US, heading drug trafficking into the US served no time, went on to become president of the US
--george w and jeb bush served no time...
--mitt romney in charge of the money laundering for south american drug lords and US businessmen, served no time
--the modern DEA is under the command of CIA assets...
--the billboards are just a way of spending money on corporate welfare for the outdoor ad companies
--bla bla bla bla, i know it gets boring, but someone has to remember, that for all their republican creed, we have been reaping the most bitter fruits from their greedy and hypocritical real beings behind the mask, and remember that even bill clinton was in on it since his days as governor of arkansas, his reward for keeping quiet, he was quietly allowed to become president, and it's hillary's to lose too, US politicians are worse than their CIA puppet rafail caro quintero, with all their church going impunity...
Never to be seen again..
ReplyDelete"Up to" $5,000,000.00
ReplyDelete"Oh you found him, here's $20".
And a kick on the ass!
DeleteTo the person with any info please give us youre personal info and dont forget youre adress so we can send u the $5000000 LMFAO. We all no wher that leads to.
ReplyDeleteOh snaps is that him he looks just like him old man grey hair. O wait thers onther one and another one damn all my paisas look the same im rich bitch.
ReplyDeleteThe first one went up on June 5, and that was in az and tx. dea has a press release about it. la etc came later
ReplyDeleteI dont care if they never catch this guy again. He spent enough time for supplying to people that wanted it. The reason they cant stop this is the law of supply and demand. Kill the demand first and pretty soon, no supply.
ReplyDeleteWhat does the "DEA", (doesn't. enforce. anything) think to accomplish by posting Billboards IN LA??? Why would Caro be in LA? What are the chances of somebody in LA actually being/getting close to Caro???
ReplyDeleteHe has family in the long beach area
DeleteRafael is like Gus Fring on "Breaking Bad" He owns Los Pollos Hermanos.
ReplyDeleteThis is a complete waste of money I can't comprehend why the dea would post these in the usa when he's in fucking Mexico. What are the chances somebody driving on the freeway down here would cross paths with caro quintero? Unless this just occurred to me lol the dea wants to bring more attention to him down here so the usa could bring more pressure on Mexico tp capture him
ReplyDeleteTHE FIRST BILLBOARD IN LOS ANGELES IS IN THE 5 FREEWAY RIGHT ON THE EXIT OF DEA MOST WANTED OVIDIO LIMON SANCHEZ THAT LIVED IN COMMERCE WAS RAFAEL CARO QUINTERO RIGHT HAND MAN .......COINCIDENCE OR SOME SORT OF STRAGETY......... LOOK IT UP .....Ovidio Limón Sánchez” no había sido mencionado por ninguna autoridad mexicana. Saltó a una fama de bajo perfil en 2009, cuando la DEA lo puso en la lista de los criminales más buscados por el gobierno de EU
ReplyDeleteIs he still incarcerated ?? I wonder why they still have his billboard up.
DeleteOvidio is Chapo compa.he even named one of his sons after him
DeleteLet me think....if I were him I would hide in Florida, where everyone has white hair.
ReplyDeleteThe billboards are for domestic consumption only.
ReplyDeleteCaro is free because he is once again an American gvt cia asset!
Bigger rat than Chapo!
EL Chapo mentioned he met with Rafael Quintero. After his release ....La Tuta mentions him in his latest video...I do believe el R1 is back in business ..
ReplyDeleteno decent honest clean living mexican has money to come and invest in the US, the US knows that, and still made laws to promote investment and banking by mexicans, in the US, then prosecute them for all the money...
ReplyDelete--conveniently, the US does not prosecute US or other european banks or global corporations who really live off crime, invest a lot of dirty money overseas, offshore US jobs, using tax credits and incentives from the US government, they send or keep all their profits and capitals outside the US, to the point of being out of cash all the time, and begging and borrowing or getting free money from THE US GOVERNMENT they hate and belittle so much...
--republican corporatistas can be so evil, they even own all the main and most prominent democrats, bought for a few favors, a few thousands of dollars and cuban cigars by speaker of the house since he was minority leader, in his own words...
He is probably up in the sierra under CDS protection as he is again a fugitive. He would probably want to retire but it would be very hard to do as he would have to keep moving. He probably has the means though.
ReplyDeleteCome on now everyone knows now that the c.i.a. took Camarena out!!! C.i.a. is the biggest cartel in the world making a mess everywhere
ReplyDeleteHe looks like Baba Booey in that middle picture.
ReplyDeleteLOL they can put these up in the US, problem is he's in Mexico and no one there is looking for him.
ReplyDeleteYea right. Go ahead and look for him and turn him in then you will be tortured and killed like Kiki. You will never be found just like Rafael.
ReplyDeleteErnesto Fonseca Carrillo was absolutely involved/ The tortured was at his home, and his home is where the torture tapes were found.
ReplyDeleteJust because he said "Not Me!!!" the evidence said otherwise. When the coward was apprehended he spilled his guts and named names.
BTW Breaking Bad spin off "Better Call Saul: begins in a couple weeks...
ReplyDeleteI can't wait. Hope jesse appears in it as well.
DeleteCouple weeks? :/ February 2015
DeleteWillis' are not permitted here
ReplyDeleteLets be realistic here if it took 13 fucking years for DEA and MEXICO to get chapo guzman after escaping from prison what makes you guys think rafael caro quintero is getting apprehended a year after his release USA should be mad at mexico not at him he did his time in mexico and mexico fucked up for releasing him mexican authorities or politicians aren't dumb they want him to make more money and pay them under the table whos going to feed them now that chapo was gone ?
ReplyDeleteel bato ya pago y a recibido un castigo,ahora los gringos lo quieren por que tienen miedo que empine a la DEA,por que no se lo llevaron desde el principio de todo el desmadre que se hizo. esos de la DEA no son blancas palomitas tambien hacen sus tranzas y si se mueren es por traidores o por no cumplir con un trato.
ReplyDeleteUS 60 Grand Ave south of 31st Ave., in Phoenix, Arizona
ReplyDeleteMuchos gracias Chivis Real...that is by the strip club where I shoot dice out in the back by the dumpsters.
Delete99% of these narcos hide in place site, the DEA knows exactly were he is but the mexican government will not allow U.S government to conduct raids searches and capture emissions the useless mexican government will always take the credit to the DEA's hard work.
ReplyDeleteThe hard work the d.e.a has done since the 80s bringing in tons and tons of Coca for the white collar group...
Delete@ Chivis
ReplyDeleteSo pumped!
Feynman
@6:12 the problem is not that all of the CIA or DEA or any other US agency's
ReplyDeleteagents are corrupt, nobody is saying that, the problem is all the bosses are corrupt and the good agents better not say anything about the ugly deeds of their beloved corporations if they know on which side of the bread goes the butter, which is what trickle down means, when it comes down to US public corruption, it trickles down from above, way up there...
There's also one on the corner of the 60 east and the 605 N by City of Industry/El Monte, it has been there since June.
ReplyDeleteThats crazy they put it in commerce, that a distribution hub for the cds, commerce and all the surroundings is full of cds member and family member i wonder if its a tactic by the DEA
ReplyDeleteLOL as if they're going to re-capture Quintero. The plan to release him was 28 years in the making. They would have let him go if there wasn't pressure on them from the Americans to lock him up. They waited until no one talked about him anymore and then let him go. 28 years in the making, they've worked too hard to decide to go back on their corrupt little campaign.
ReplyDeleteEPN is just as big a sociopath as most of the narcos. He's just a little bit better than La Tuta at manipulating Mexico's most gullible citizens into thinking he's working for their best interests, so he gets to be president.
alot of peeps here know a family member of caro... they are everywhere. unless they lie and say they are related to him..
ReplyDeleteChivis u should do a story of raffael caro quintero the beginning and now of his release and his role with the government and the drug trade?????
ReplyDeleteIsn't the cia fault camarena is dead they should have pulled him out as soon as the raid happend so I dont know why there still holding a grudge racist whiteboys they can find bin laden but they cant find a white pedophile
ReplyDelete11;48 we dum americuns, we really smart actchuly. You knot very nise. I go back and watch Hee Haw now.
ReplyDeletekiki camarena and the DEA at the time did their job, let's put blame where it belongs, the CIA allied and working in cahoots with the mexican DFS trafficking drugs into the US had camarena and zavala avelar tortured and killed, the CIA now blames rogue agents under contract to the agency, just to save face, the billboards are up just to save face for the us where brinksmanship keeps saving the day for the worst political satrapy ever from behind the US government petticoats.
ReplyDeletedaniel ortega is still the president of nicaragua, because the drug money made from drug trafficking and from inventing and distributing crack, was stolen by the bush crime family, oliver north, felix ismael rodriguez, dick cheney, the dr calero crime family, there were big bunches of money for everyone, and to buy the US presidency three times and it keeps on giving for jeb bush's try, no matter what mama barbara bush says...
--the US press as usual don't know nothing...
--what is intriguing is why would fawx news was the only US news outlet to air the report about the CIA's involvement, of all of them, it would be the least expected development, unless it was to extort something from someone, it is to be expected from proceso, not at all from the fox news toilet...
Fox news alert: you are right!
Delete"Paque lo quieren los gringos si ese no canta en ingles"
ReplyDeleteIts upsetting how the DEA wants this guy so bad. I understand he is accused of torturing and murdering a DEA agent, but get the f@#k over it. There's a$$holes in the States that rape and kill little girls that get less time than what Rafael Quintero has already served. The guy did 28 yrs. What makes a DEA agents life more precious than anybody else's?
ReplyDeleteThey want to shut him up, he knows too much!
DeleteThey put billboards on specific areas because the dea knows drug dealers and family and associates of drug dealers move to cities like south gate, montebello, whittier pico rivera etc areas that are middle class latino neighborhoods.
ReplyDelete4:38 hace mucho que todo el mundo sabe demasiado, i mean too many people knows too much for a while, silencing rcq now would be too late, all they have to do is keep looking for him without finding him, we will still know what happened and who was involved where and when...
ReplyDeletela perra se solto hace tiempo, and the cat is out of the bag...
Damn americans always blaming mexicans for everything i mean when was the last time an american was extradited to another country for murder screw them the world needs to wake up and stand up to those a-holes . Americans are hypocrites sometimes this is your war once you guys quit smoking snorting and injecting crap it will be all over and you wont have to look for mexican bad guys anymore.
ReplyDeleteDicen k fue un error del cartel I el CIA ya sa viya pero no I so nada pa parar lo Era un CUBANO de traje negro k
ReplyDeleteHey i printed that billboard poster . Most of them went to El Paso though
ReplyDeletehes a powerful and smart man that he wont get caught again. The us government tried to freeze hes billion of dollars he had in switzerland but failed to becuase of their secrecy laws and his family took most of the money out of the bank, now hes still living large. El chapo helped him after hs release, and all that think el chapo is in prison think again, his copy is in prison while the original chapo is out at large. the mexican government did that in purpose to get the reward from the us govt.
ReplyDeleteCaro Quintero is not a killer. Chapo, Escobar, Colombian Rodriguez-Gacha alias "el Mexicano," all committed murder for $ between the ages of 14 & 16. Caro Quintero worked as a truck driver when he was a teenager. The man gave the world sinsemilla pot. Have some respect! 28 years in prison--he's more than earned his right to enjoy his life. And, he sure as can be didn't kill or torture Kiki.
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