Mexico’s Navy stated on Friday that 14 humans have been killed and some other character changed into injured after a Black Hawk navy helicopter crashed withinside the northern country of Sinaloa.
The motive of the crash is being investigated, however to date there may be no records indicating the incident changed into associated with the arrest of drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero in some other a part of Sinaloa on Friday, the Navy stated in a assertion.
On Friday, the Navy captured infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, convicted for the homicide and torture of a US anti-narcotics agent in 1985.
The kingpin rose to prominence as a co-founding father of the Guadalajara Cartel, one in all Latin America’s maximum effective drug trafficking groups in the course of the 1980s, and changed into the various maximum prized objectives for US officials.
The US authorities hailed the arrest, and stated it might waste no time in soliciting for his extradition. “This is huge,” White House senior Latin America adviser Juan Gonzalez stated on Twitter.
The Mexican Navy stated in a assertion Caro Quintero changed into stuck withinside the municipality of Choix withinside the northwestern country of Sinaloa, one in all Mexico’s drug-trafficking heartlands.
He changed into observed in shrub land with the aid of using a navy-educated girl bloodhound named Max, the Navy stated.
The arrest in San Simon, Choix, comes after stress from the US, consistent with a Mexican authentic, and the identical week that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador met with US President Joe Biden in Washington.
Caro Quintero spent 28 years in jail for the brutal homicide of former US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, one of the maximum infamous killings in Mexico’s bloody narco wars. The events, dramatized withinside the 2018 Netflix series “Narcos: Mexico,” brought about a nadir in US-Mexico co-operation in a five-decade “strugglefare on drugs.”
Caro Quintero has formerly denied involvement withinside the killing of Camarena. He changed into launched in 2013 on a technicality with the aid of using a Mexican judge, embarrassing the preceding authorities.
He quick went underground and again to trafficking as a part of the Sinaloa Cartel, consistent with U.S. officials, who placed him at the FBI’s Top 10 maximum desired fugitives listing and placed a $20 million bounty on his head, a file for a drug trafficker.
Last year, he misplaced a very last attraction in opposition to extradition to the US. He may be extradited as quick as possible, some other Mexican authentic stated.
“It might be one of the maximum critical captures of the closing decade in phrases of significance to the DEA,” stated Mike Vigil, the DEA’s former leader of worldwide operations.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland stated he could are trying to find Caro Quintero’s instantaneously extradition.
“There isn’t anyt any hiding region for each person who kidnaps, tortures, and murders American regulation enforcement. We are deeply thankful to Mexican government for his or her seize and arrest of Rafael Caro-Quintero,” Garland stated in a assertion.
While the 69-year-antique Caro Quintero is not taken into consideration a prime participant in worldwide drug trafficking, the symbolic effect of his seize is considerable.
For Mexican protection professional Alejandro Hope, the arrest pointed to considerable cooperation among the US and Mexico notwithstanding current clashes over protection. “This sort of seize is unthinkable with out the participation of the DEA,” he stated.
Mexico’s unwillingness to extradite Caro Quintero to the US earlier than his launch from jail were a supply of anxiety among the 2 countries. A US authentic stated Washington changed into very keen to have him extradited.
“This will optimistically begin to mend the frayed courting among the US and Mexico in phrases of preventing drug trafficking,” stated former DEA authentic Vigil.