DRUG LORD Rafael Caro Quintero to be notified in NY after being transferred from Mexico

New York (AP) – Cartel leaders, Rafael Caro Quintero and Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, are to be notified in a US Federal Court in New York on Friday, behind them Surprise transfer from Mexico.

The pair was among 29 Mexican prisoners sent Thursday in eight US cities

Caro Quintero, the former leader of the Guadalajara Cartel, was Behind the killing of a US DEA agent in 1985 And he had been on the FBI list the most sought after fugitives. Carrillo Fuentes is a former leader from the Juarez drug cartel.

The pair will appear in the Federal Court of Brooklyn, part of the East District of New York, where the Kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Cartel was previously prosecuted.

The White House, in a statement on Friday before the referral, named Caro Quintero “one of the worst cartel in the world.”

“The Trump administration declares these robbers as terrorists, because they are and demands justice for the American people,” the statement said.

The transport of the prisoner comes in the conditions in which Mexican officials are in Washington trying to discourage President Donald Trump de imposing 25% rates for all Mexican imports.

In exchange for delaying tariffs, Trump insisted that Mexico collapsed on cartels, illegal immigration and fentanel production.

Among the other extradited are the leading members of the six Mexicans Organized crime groups recently designated by the Republican administration as “foreign terrorist organizations”.

These include cartel leaders, security heads of both factions of Sinaloa Cartel, Cartel Finance Operators and a man sought in connection with those Killing a northern Carolina sheriff’s deputy in 2022.

Carrillo Fuentes is the brother of Lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, known as the “Lord of heaven”, who died in an uncomfortable plastic surgery in 1997.

Meanwhile, Caro Quintero has long been one of the best Mexican targets in America for extradition.

He performed 28 years in a Mexican prison, but left freely, after a court overturned the 40-year penalty for the 1985 abduction and killing of the US Drug Administration Agent, Enrique “Kiki” Camarena. The crime marked a low point in US-Mexico relations and was an objective of the popular Netflix series “Narcos: Mexico”.

Caro Quintero returned to drug trafficking and unleashed bloody lawn battles in the border state northern Mexico Sonora He was arrested by Mexican forces in 2022.

The US, which at some point had offered a $ 20 million reward for CARO Quintero’s capture, immediately sought extradition.

But the request remained in the Limbo as then the Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador He severely reduced the cooperation of his country with the US to protest on American operations to apply American law aimed at Mexican political and military officials.

Then, in January, a non -profit group representing the Camarena family sent a letter to the Trump Administration who requested it to renew the extradition request.

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