(ANSA) – MEXICO CITY, JUL 18 – A Mexican federal judge today upheld a petition from the family of drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quintero, temporarily suspending his rapid extradition to the United States. Milenio TV reports it.
Judge Francisco Reséndiz Neri di Jalisco, the broadcaster adds, accepted an appeal from the sister of the accused and founder of the Guadalajara drug cartel, Beatriz Angélica Caro Quintero, in which he asked for the suspension of the rapid deportation to the United States, for respect the process envisaged by the existing treaty between Mexico and the USA.
For which the judge signed an order in which he confirmed that “the suspension is granted definitively, so that it is not carried out (extradition) and that the interested party remains in the place where he is now available to this court”.
Arrested on July 16, Caro Quintero was in 2018 on the FBI’s most wanted list with a bounty of 20 million dollars, for the accusation, among other things, of killing the agent of the American Drug Enforcement Administration. Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena in 1985. (ANSA).
Source: Ansa
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