Rafael Caro Quintero,
former founder of the Guadalajara cartel, obtained an ex officio and plane
suspension from a federal judge so as not to be extradited to the United
States, a federal court wants him for the crimes of kidnapping and
manslaughter of the DEA agent, Enrique Camarena, perpetrated in 1985.
In October, the First
Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) refused to protect
the kingpin against the Extradition Treaty [amparo] signed between Mexico and the United
States, Milenio reported.
The ministers left it
up to the First Collegiate Court in Criminal Matters of the First Circuit to
resolve only issues of legality to determine whether or not to approve the
extradition.
The magistrates of the
Collegiate had so far not resolved the case, because they have not yet received
the judgment from the Court.
However, the capo was
ahead of any adverse scenario and filed its demand for guarantees to prevent extradition.
The Fourth District
Judge of Amparo in Criminal Matters, María Dolores Núñez Solorio, granted the
suspension to the capo and prevented it in the sense that the precautionary
measure will not take effect, in the event that the claimed act has been the
subject of a different trial of protection.
Núñez Solorio said in
his agreement that the drug trafficker requested the suspension with respect to
the extradition order requested by the United States Government, but not the
capture order he has in Mexico. He served 28 years of his 40 year sentence.
On August 9, 2013, Caro
Quintero got his freedom after remaining 28 years in prison, because a
collegiate court granted him an amparo.
The determination was
fought by the former Attorney General's Office and took the case to the Court
where on November 6 of the same year the First Chamber revoked the sentence.
In December 2013, the
attorney Jesús Murillo Karam, announced that Caro Quintero sent a letter to
President Enrique Peña Nieto, in which he requested that he no longer be
persecuted, because what he had to already serve.
In January 2015, the
Second Unitary Court of the Third Circuit, based in Guadalajara, in compliance
with the Court ruling again declared Rafael Caro and Ernesto Fonseca, Don Neto,
criminally responsible for the crimes of illegal deprivation of liberty in the
modality of kidnapping and qualified homicide, to the detriment of the DEA
agent, Enrique Camarena Salazar and the Mexican pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar.
Likewise, he determined
that Caro had to serve the 12 years of prison that he lacked, so he was ordered
to re-apprehend him.
The United States today
offers a reward of 20 million dollars for the head of Caro Quintero. Since
1985, they seek to prosecute him for the murder of the DEA agent, a crime
committed in Guadalajara, where Zavala Avelar was also killed.
As a U.S. citizen, I must say I find it absolutely ridiculous that the DEA would put a $20M reward out for Caro Quintero while El Mencho, who’s CJNG Cartel is by far the bigger threat to both Mexican and U.S. interests has only a $10M reward...that seems completely backwards - Mencho should be the bigger fish and higher priority, and that’s if you were to target any of the leaders at all.
ReplyDeleteGreat observation my friend.Someone like you needs to be head of the Dea.
DeleteAgree
DeleteHe hasn't been accused of killing a DEA agent and being released.
DeleteIts a personal vendetta...let it be...
Delete432 your right I am going out to protest, that's little money.
DeleteLook it's easy, The hell with Mexico, Send a death squad
DeleteOf our elite,Raid the fuck'n prison and kill him or drag him over the border shoot his ass, Stop playing,DEA Agent was killed, an American
With a wife and kids,
Fuck, go get him ads holes,
Just can't seem to get a break.
ReplyDeleteSo Rafa won't be extradited?
ReplyDeleteThey cannot extricate him to the US! but they can capture him?
ReplyDeleteThe real power that matters on the ground in Mexico is the cartels. Until the USA comes in with authority justice for criminals at the top will never be meted. Until then Mexico will remain a joke, sadly. An international embarrassment.
ReplyDeleteCaro paid the right guys $$$
ReplyDeleteMoney talks
lmao, enjoy it while it last. RCQ will be at the top if the capture list once the CIA begins anti terrorist operations in Mexico. It's not about threat level, it's about what he stands for. He murdered a DEA agent, and the US will never forget that and must set the example. Unlike the embarrassment that is Mexico, the rule of law exist in the US.
ReplyDeleteOnce spotted he will be executed by US undercover elites.
ReplyDeleteYou can run from the Americans but you can not hide. Eventually they will find you and kill you. Menchos days are coming. Just ask Abu bakr al baghdadi, saddam hussein or osama bin laden how hiding from the Americans worked out.
ReplyDeleteRCQ has too much dirt on Mexican and US agencies, not being killed or captured is his insurance.
ReplyDeleteNone of you know what is going on about anything so please stop your stupid comments. Mexicans are the most honest and hard working people in the world. You have criminals in the USA and all over the world
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