FILE PHOTO: A picture of Rafael Caro Quintero in this undated handout. FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation/ Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico will extradite to the United States drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, convicted of murdering a U.S. anti-narcotics agent in 1985, and more than two dozen other suspected cartel members, sources told Reuters on Thursday.
Caro Quintero, a co-founder of the Guadalajara Cartel, one of Latin America's most powerful drug trafficking organizations during the 1980s, spent 28 years in prison for the brutal murder and torture of former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, one of the most notorious killings in Mexico's bloody narco wars.
Caro Quintero has previously denied involvement in the killing of Camarena. He was released in 2013 on a technicality by a Mexican judge and returned to trafficking before he was eventually captured by Mexican authorities in 2022.
Mexico on Thursday also extradited Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, known as Z-40, and Oscar Omar Trevino Morales, known as Z-42, two suspected former leaders of the violent Los Zetas drug cartel to the United States, the Webb County Sheriff's Office in Texas said. They were detained by Mexico's military in 2013 and 2015, respectively.
(Reporting by Drazen Jorgic, Laura Gottesdiener and Lizbeth Diaz; Editing by Anthony Esposito)
