A 77-year-old man has
been arrested in the 1985 killing of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent -
a horrific death that marked the first time a cartel had attacked and killed a U.S. drug agent.
Ezequiel Godinez
Cervantes was taken into custody by Mexican police Thursday in Mexicali,
Mexico, after the Federal Bureau of Investigation tipped off authorities when
Godinez crossed the border.
Godinez was handed over
to U.S. authorities at the border and arraigned Thursday in federal court in El
Centro. It was unclear whether he has a lawyer.
Godinez is accused of
kidnapping and torturing San Diego DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena
Salazar - an act that forever changed how the U.S. fought drug cartels.
The Texas native,
Godinez, was a member of the now-defunct
Guadalajara Cartel, Baja California state police indicated
"The killing of an
American agent on foreign soil was a huge game changer for the United
States," said Gretchen Von Helms, a criminal defense attorney who has not
tied to the case.
"They were
obviously interested in protecting their agents at the time and at the time the
DEA operated in Mexico much like it was in the United States. You did not believe
that you could be killed.
"In February 1985,
Camarena disappeared while working undercover. A month later, I was found dead
on a ranch on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico
Officials said Camarena
was tortured and killed by the Guadalajara Cartel, which blamed the agent for
the takedown of a marijuana plantation."His name has morphed into a symbol
of the drug war between the United States and Mexico," Von Helms said.
The cartel was
reportedly run by Miguel Ángel Felix Gallardo and Rafael Caro Quintero, the
latter of whom was added to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list in 2018 -
with a $ 20 million bounty - for his alleged involvement in Camarena's
death.Camarena's legacy can be seen throughout the county with schools, a
library, a foundation, and even an annual golf tournament named after him.
Netflix '"Narcos:
Mexico" even portrayed Camarena's career and eventual death.
"His name is
really a household name. He's very honored and very revered. And the law
enforcement comes to protect his memory and to honor his memory, "said Von
Helms
In the 1990s, he was
charged with the 1985 slayings of two U.S. residents in Guadalajara. The men,
one from Texas and the other from Minnesota, unwittingly entered a bar where
drug traffickers were partying and were stabbed with ice picks and beaten to death.
Godinez was arrested in Texas in 1996, but the charges against him were dropped the next year.
Sure now go find the killer of tupac,biggie,jfk,mlk...all whom were killed in usa soil by an american....thats how hypocrite this government is...
ReplyDeleteTupac was killed by that crip he stomped out in Vegas earlier that night.
DeleteShut the hell up and stop crying. Get off your ass and be productive with your pathetic life you ignorant waste of life.
DeleteSome c
DeleteDocumentary points to a disappeared member of Nation of Islam as the murderer, with suge knight behind it because Tupac wanted out and go on with his better life and much better deals. Suge has kept exploiting the name and the brand even forcing Tupac's mother to help him. Lucky man Notorious B|G got shot right in the ass, must have hurt like hell. Pero ahi andan de calientes.
Fantastic!!!!! Is he that fucken doctor that kept him alive for more torture? Send that bastard to super max and drive him insane!
ReplyDelete6:10 doctor Alvarez Machain got released immediate because he was captured and extradited illegally to the US. Never got prosecuted again, I think he threatened somebody with spilling the beans if they stick the cattle prod up his ass one more time.
DeleteThere are hundreds of case law instances related, but Dr Humberto Alvarez Machain was released by the US government and never charged again, you can find out why.
DeleteMachain was kidnapped in Mexico and released to law enforcement, on the US, El cheque Godinez Cervantes may have a case if he got extradited by Mexico without a trial or shet.
What a savage.
ReplyDeleteOh, hell yeah!
ReplyDeleteSemper Fi, Kiki.
Dr K
7:33 the US government sides with their secrets... Sorry Kiki.
DeleteBut you have many more monuments that many presidents, enjoy.
I don't agree with everything the government says or does. There's a special comraderie among military forces, regardless of how our government is doing at any given moment. Not that I in any way am of the same caliber that Kiki was. What a badass.
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Our own gov killed him cia did not want anything they where doing in Colombia to come to light and kiki new to much
Delete10:14 most americans love and support the US armed forces,
Deletein spite of heir many sins, but not many intelligent and well illustrated believe in the US government infiltrated full of chicken shit sprouting war hawks, fabricating wars for profit all over the world, sometimes inventing sources and secret info they freshly dug out off their asses like WMD in Iraq.
1124, I agree with you. You have to intelligently discern and support people, but also recognize the sins of the many and of the government that perpetuates unjustified killing. It's one thing for people to thank us for our service and support us (although I think they go too far with it at times, especially lately), but to know the atrocities that some also support - now that's extremely useful information to know as well. DK
DeleteWeather some rogue agent or some Mexican cartel might of killed Camarena, but truly the Us Gov killed Kiki. Being greedy for putting their nose in somewhere they shouldn’t have. Thank the pharmaceutical industry and US president Reagan for staring this senseless war!!
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame people like you can vote and have children
DeleteHe may be shameful but you (1:49pm) are naïve.
Delete7:54 - It was Nixon who started the war on drugs, not Reagan.
DeletePhelpso
It’s s shame @149 that close minded individuals like yourself wont accept that the US gov has no good intentions.
DeleteThese corporations donate millions of dollars to politicians for their own benefit!
At 1:49...Dude is just saying the truth what ever happens in other countries shouldn't be our business...its kinda like peaking into your neighbors yard when you hear them fighting trying to be a little captain save a hoe....
DeleteNixon helped establish the dea aa a tool to fight the war on drugs...
Delete12:18 ever since before the US achieved independence, they were already working on stealing Canada, Mexico, LatinAmerica, anything that was not British owned, the american revolutionaries kiss and made out with Britain and went on tto steal their colonies from a the other countries they had courted, since then England has hosted many revolutionaries, including a hungry Karl Marx and even hungrier Vlademir Iliych Ulianov, Lenin whose fall guy Stalin took over the Russian revolution for the next 50 years.
DeleteRevolutions are very good business, the many on the US still claims "America for the Americans", which are not brown or black or Chinese and try to enforce their policies to rob and exploit every other nation on the world. It is not like other countries wish to come and engage the US in some trouble for the hell of it,
It is that there must be limits to the exploitation of others by some on the US.
according to this article he was wanted for probation violations
ReplyDeletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national/man-once-implicated-in-dea-agents-killing-arrested/2019/05/03/0a60a694-6d61-11e9-bbe7-1c798fb80536_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b15a9afe0be3
8:15 what with the madafackin' COBOL?
DeleteGOOGLE: GROW UP, beibi
Why is this guy arrested tho!! Who is this guy??? After 30 plus years why is it nearly coming to light about this guy? I’m confused anybody else??
ReplyDeleteIt is very confusing.
DeletePlayboys got that magnum look down. Like he just don’t give a fuck. He’s already lived his life. So, what’s he got to lose at this point? If anything I’m sure he’s kept all his life insurance policies up to date for his inevitable demise. - Sol Prendido
ReplyDeleteSol I was thinking the same thing. I actually think it’s kinda the same with Chapo. Of course he’d rather be free. but I’d be willing to bet he wouldn’t trade his life back.
DeletePhelpso
It’s actually way different with chapo he’s is the grimiest type of human who would give up anyone in his family to be free
DeleteAbout time.
ReplyDelete34 years later we are given a man, who changed the course of history with I guess unwittingly torture and killing of Kiko.
Don't torture and kill a 77 yr. old man. Put him away and let him pass in isolation, deservedly.
He’ll probably end up in a level 1 federal prison so it will be more like a retirement home all amenities payed for by the people.. the people meaning us tax paying Americans
Delete914 They don't torture in US, they lock him up in a 8x13 cell.
DeleteTodavia andan chingado Los gringos con Kiki Camarena?
ReplyDeleteWAIT there's a $20 Million dollar on Rafael Caro Quintero head and no one in Mexico knows where he is.
ReplyDeleteHe bought his way out of prison over three years ago and is in Sonora, Mexico setting up another cartel. Despite the 20 million reward, no one will go near him or even admit they know where he is!
DeleteWho cares tbh. Thousands of Mexican law enfrocement agents have died in this worthless war on drugs and people are still yapping about the death of a corrupt US narc.
ReplyDelete@12:25 ... Thank You !
Delete12:25 corrupt your mama,
DeleteKiki Camarena was one honest cop and he did his job, that why he lost his life, which he did not sign for.
12.25 . You obviously know nothing of the facts and history of any of this .
DeleteU sound like a fucking kid..
Delete12:25, unappreciative, foolish human being.
Delete9:35 a follower.
You guys are why we need a wall, a 30 foot wall with manned gun turrets every 100 yards.
Ingrates, total lack of appreciation.
You will get no funds from me or my government with that attitude.
I worked with Camarena. He was NOT corrupt and was a very good agent and person. I resent the hell out of your stupid remark and it is a personal insult to me. Only a person signing their name as "anonymous" could make such remarks!
Delete928, don't pay attention to driveby unfounded statements by fools.
Delete1:34 without Mexico to kick around, get interest payments from or growing your foods, the US would collapse like a load of soggy poop. I mean, you could stuck your wall where the sun Don't shine and nobody would notice.
DeleteDavBow1 Amen. I live in Beirut and i respect all the US law enforcement agents and their dedication, i’m thousands of miles away and not a US citizen but sometimes i feel I appreciate those guys more than American citizens do.
DeleteFight crime in your house, in your neighborhood, in your town and country .. don’t come to another man’s house to enforce your “law” and then cry when they have you tied and gagged with a broomstick in your ass! Lmao
DeleteWhat is perplexing is how this guy and RCQ 2 self declared 'non players" have stayed submerged for decades. Jefes who have depleted both assets of money and influence usually do not have long lifespans but these guys lasted through the reigns of El Chapo and Mencho. I find that damned curious.
ReplyDelete1:50 thanks to the fine art of staying submerged,
Deletethe Caro and Mr Guudiness got to grow those mustaches,
Arrested by mexican polesias when he crossed the bridge, from where?
ReplyDeleteHe was recognized after leaving the US and entering Mexico?
In the hunt for Camarena, CARTEL DE GUADALAJARA gangsters seem to have killed 6 PEOPLE that looked like gabachos, but nobody even knew what Kiki looked like, so, how did they know his name?
Kiki and other DEA agents were known to work out of the US embassy in Guadalajara, even in the CDG circles at high levels, but the Mexican federal police had to kidnap him after the DFS pointed the right guy, I mean identifying Kiki Camarena was a job done from above, the CIA and the DFS POINTED CAMARENA TO CDG.
DFS Fernando Gutierrez Barrios and Manuel Bartlett.
CIA Felix Ismael Rodriguez Mendigutia (FIRM) and his compadre Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros Honduran drug trafficker who as found guilty for his part in the case and supposedly imprisoned on the US, they were running contra training camps in Mexico they also used to transport and transfer drugs, money, weapons and contra.
On one such camp were murdered 22 Policias Federales in cold blood, after they were forced to surrender by contras they were allegedly trying to rob of tons of mariguana believing they were just some campesinos... In the village of Sanchez Taboada, Veracruz, that rancho was owned by CDG and being used as a contras base by Felix Rodriguez.
CIA Tosh Plumlee a contract pilot, DEA agents Phil Jordan from El Paso and Hector Berrellez (who had been working with Guillermo Gonzalez Calderoni a Policia judicial federal that had helped the FBI kill Pablo Acosta in ojinaga and was murdered later in Texas, for singing to DEA and Berrellez), 3 guys that accused Felix Rodriguez and Co. for his part on FOX News and Proceso, have been demonized by the US government and their former employers on the CIA and the DEA, including by Felix Ismael Rodriguez Mendigutia who threatened lawsuits, but never defended himself in court. Jesus Esquivel a mexican reporter accused them on Aristegui too.
People have said 10 000 tons of mariguana worth about 5 billion dollars were caught in rancho el Buffalo were destroyed by mexican authorities but what made the CDG mad was the US DEA confiscating 250 million dollars from US banks, idea of Camarena, whose name was fed from the top of the feeding chain to CDG.
Those that fed Kiki's name to the Mexican Cartel wolves have not been investigated or prosecuted, since they were presidential pardoned, idea of AG Bill Barr "the General of Cover Ups".
WFAA "el chapo may face new charges..."
Google names of US citizens killed by mistake by Guadalajara Cartel.
2 US missionary Jehova's Witnesses and their 2 US wives, and later 2 Guadalajara U students from the US.
The killers of 22 Federales in Sanchez Taboada ver. Have never been prosecuted, but some innocent local peasants living in the area have spent about 30 years in prison, some for being family of local police officers that tried to help the Federales locate the contra ranch, some of them escaped and left the 22 Federales to their luck in the trap. Some time later Manuel Buendia got his just desserts for cooperating with Camarena.
--All this happened while
Minister Carlos Salinas de Gortari was being groomed and breast fed by presidente Miguel de la Madrid before his appointment to the presidency, he had been running the whole thing from behind courtains.
What a great post! So much good info!
DeleteWas this individual still in the game knowing he was a wanted man?
ReplyDeleteIf so with which organizations?
Took a long time to catch him, must have been hiding in the caves all this time.
ReplyDeleteArrested in 1996 but the charges against him were dropped the following year, And now has been re-arrested over ten years later? And everyone says the Mexican judicial system being a joke.
ReplyDeleteBOP.gov says he was released in 2018, curious stuff
Delete9:12
DeleteBACK TO THE FUTURE, he was just arrested this 2019!
Yer welcom.
Narcos Mexico|Finding Kiki Camarena Dead Body, YouTube
DeleteSegment shows the murders of an entire family, bodies were transplanted from their original grave to their ranch, complete with assassination of the whole family by mexican "cops".
One pinchi ministerio publico municipal present, Leonel Godoy who lent credibility to the charade, became "governor of the state"
826 yes the Mexican court system is a circus, bribe a judge go free. But what if I murdered a few people, no problem, what if I have machine guns, for the exclusive use of the miltary? No problem.
DeleteI don’t understand how FBI tipped off Mexican authorities after he crossed the border. Which direction of the border was he headed? But was arrested by Mexican authorities. Elaborate please...
ReplyDeleteIt's all over the place with these contradictory statements.
DeleteWho can we believe?
What's the dillio?
Ikr. If they knew he was in the States then why not just go get him. Why take the chance of him slipping by or the notoriously corrupt Mexican government helping him escape. Makes one wonder if...ya know.
ReplyDeleteIkr. If they knew he was in the States then why not just go get him. Why take the chance of him slipping by or the notoriously corrupt Mexican government helping him escape. Makes one wonder if...ya know.
ReplyDeleteOnce the U.S government wants you, your good as dead..but the real killer caro Quintero is good at hiding from the FBI and DEA.. see Sinaloa nunca lo cacharan
ReplyDeleteEveryone knows Rafa has been paying the piso to special Mexican gobiernos as well as Us officials to maintain his freedom. He is the master teaching the kids
DeleteRafa is a good man and a member in good standing, he took it like a man on the behind for 30 years, until he took a liking to it
DeleteNow he works free and for free as "la Gilbertona".
RCQ has many tricks up his old sleeve. As well as many WELL connected friends,both mafia and govt.
DeleteWho give a fuck,sure as hell the Mexicans dont,they just hate and whine about Camarena and all things US and Mex-Ameres,and hero worship rats,what does this say to you ?
ReplyDelete2:03 uste chingue a su madre, guey.
DeleteKIKI CAMARENA IS AN HERO ALMOST LIKE GEORGE WASHINGTON.
if you Don't know, don't worry about it,
you are going to hell anyway.
Sorry to correct you. But I believe they found his body in michoacan
ReplyDelete3:40 . I think you are correct and I believe the body was buried in a orange grove.
DeleteSo now don Rafa is free fiero
ReplyDeleteViejo
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story stated Ezequiel Godinez-Cervantes was arrested in connection with the killing of DEA Special Agent Enrique Camareno. Mexican authorities released that information, but the DEA has since issued a release to confirm Godinez-Cervantes was arrested on two warrants for violating the terms of his supervised release.
ReplyDeleteA convicted drug trafficker implicated in the 1985 torture and killing of a DEA agent was arrested in Mexico and returned to California to face a charge of probation violation.
Nini fonseca caro “ El Muerto” left hand of caro. Used to say all loud when he live in caborca that he tortured camarena when he work for his primo caro. A lot of caros en caborca but after miguel got arrested the cartel when down.
ReplyDeleteThis guy scaped from a federal prison in California then emerged decades later in the Rio Grande Valley. I believe he’s from San Juan, TX. I thought he was locked up in Beaumont, TX. I know he got arrested in Mission, TX after authorities were tipped off cause there was a reward for the tip. When did he even get out and why would the FBI want him again if he was already in U.S. custody?
ReplyDeleteTop picture MF look like the Tuttle dad from Orange County Choppers
ReplyDeleteThere’s a corrido who tells a story that the dea illegally went looking for them to kill and the narcos defended them selfs the dea killed some then they got revenge killing more dea members supposedly there were more dea agents dead then just camrena it’s just not someone knows about those people where from Guerrero very dangerous people as you guys know
ReplyDeleteThe US government is complicit in more shit than any nation around, Americans suck ass, nothing but fucking drug addicts ....Mexico is the U S doing
ReplyDeleteStatute of limitations ??
ReplyDeleteAre you feeling simpanthy for grampa? He had it coming USA does not play games.
DeleteYou guys are so dumb dude he wasn’t even the one to kill Kiki all you people talk without even knowing the guy you guys are just rude people going off what the damn government has to say since they can’t blame it on anybody else they blame it on anybody with a record 😡 I feel bad for my family having to read all this shit about our family member 💔 thank you to those who kept your options to your selves or had nothing but good stuff to say
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DeleteThis heroin addict is part of your family?