"Ivan" for Borderland Beat
A Mexican court authorized the United States to seize the assets of drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quintero in Mexico. According to information published by Reuters, on Thursday the U.S. Justice Department issued a statement regarding the ruling.
"The ruling is the first use of a new asset forfeiture law that could strengthen cooperation between the two countries in their fight against the drug cartels," it reports.
Quintero, co-founder of the once-powerful Guadalajara Cartel, was convicted in a Mexican court in 1985 of murdering a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent and was captured in Mexico in July , but has so far avoided extradition.
Under its civil forfeiture law, Mexico will allow the U.S. Justice Department to rid Quintero of the Guadalajara property.
U.S. justice officials said Quintero bought real estate with proceeds from decades of trafficking marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine to the United States.
"This seizure sends a powerful message to drug kingpins in Mexico and elsewhere that there are no limits to prosecuting the bad guys and locating their ill-gotten assets wherever they are in the world," said Breon Peace, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York. York, in a statement.
Caro Quintero spent 28 years in prison in Mexico for the murder and torture of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena.
He was released in 2013 on a technicality by a Mexican judge, in what was considered an embarrassment for the government of then-President Enrique Peña Nieto, before going into hiding.
Caro Quintero, who has denied involvement in Camarena's murder, was recaptured four months ago and is currently in custody in Mexico while extradition proceedings continue.
Can’t wait for RCQ to be extradited. That will be a good day.
ReplyDeleteDon't count on it fatass
Delete@119 - Right on! Bring him to US justice, sell his assets, and compensate Kiki’s family.
DeleteHold your breath
DeleteCome on people it’s obvious that Caro Quintero was Enrique Camarena. Facial analysis done proved it the us is embarrassed.
Delete1003 - not funny
DeleteThe only thing they will be seizing is his Calzones. Con la raya cafe
Delete505 - Stfu dick rider. That was like 30+ Years ago
DeleteNutsack sucking scum....Kiki knew what he was doing, he thought he was invincible
DeleteWith his extradition MZ And Guzman family would have another 10 years guaranteed of peace ✌️
ReplyDeleteAlso take them cias properties too
ReplyDelete🚫🚔🚨🔞💥⚠️ BREAKING NEWS: EL PLAGA FROM LOS RUSSOS 🇷🇺 WAS CAPTURED
ReplyDelete@HEARST
@HEARST thanks 🙏
DeletePlease cardinal Ocampo is Abraham Quintanilla and Selena is Demi Lavato, Elvis is Berry Seal wake up people.
DeleteBye . Bye
ReplyDeleteGovernment need to pass seizure law with the help of all courts to seize unlawful crime money from all generations. Your kids and grandkids have to prove earning the money leagally.
ReplyDeleteSell the property fuk it
ReplyDeleteDoes everyone reading this think he was the mastermind behind the kidnapping and murder of Kiki and his pilot? Ive read alot of different articles and watched different shows regarding it. I was just curious what everyone thought. Personally I don't know what to think . I think he may have been involved but don't think he was the person pulling the strings and calling the shots. I know they say it's the government pulling the strings but I am not sure what involvement they had in this case . Anyways I was just curious. To have 5 million dollar bounty on some caps but 20 million for that old man seems a little wild.
ReplyDelete8:57 Which government are you referring to?
DeleteThink he had some kind of complicity, body was found on one of his properties and had some knowledge on what was going on.
Dont think he was a perpetrator nor mastermind.
857 Cheers to DEA for going after Kiki’s killers. Hecho con confianza Caro Quintero is one of several masterminds.
DeleteWhat kind of mastermind would dump the tortured body of a dead American DEA ageant on his own property???
DeleteCamarena and his pilot Avelar were found in Michoacán
DeleteWanna know why sinaloas have a short shelf life.. Check out @el_fantasma_de_bad1 It’s better to stay under the radar and in the shadows. “Squeaky wheels always get greased”
ReplyDeleteWhen you write “Sinaloans having short shelf life”, are you referring to Mayo, Chapo, BLO, el Guero, Chapo Isidro, AFO?
DeleteThey lived light years beyond the 2011 started CJNG
Afo is gone el chapo gone blo gone.
Delete12:37 We know that but they sure as hell didn’t have a “short shelf life”.
Delete6:29 Alberto Sicilia Falcon was not from Sinaloa, but he used some, (like El Mayo and El Rey Zambada) he escaped from a mexican prison in an helicopter that landed in the prison yard.
Delete12:34 In fact he has an interesting bio, deserves a HEARST article.
DeleteAmerica seizing someone’s ill-gotten gains is pretty hilarious . Fork up some of that CIA dope money u cocksuckin feds
ReplyDeleteLo mas menso de aser Mexico. no me sorprende de regalar propiedades en su propio territorio si allar culpable al delinquente.. u.s.a nunca nunca extraditadara a alguien antes de esa persona no pague su condena en tierra de u.s.a. Damaso todos sus disque crimenes quedaran impunes en México. Mexico es una Burla para U.S.A.
ReplyDeleteThis guy should retire to Arizona like Bonano after messing things up
ReplyDeleteThe new clowns don't operate like this old guys he should be on the sidelines watching them screw up
ReplyDelete