AUSTIN, Texas — A notorious Mexican drug cartel leader on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List was one of more than two dozen inmates busted out of a prison close to the U.S. border earlier this week.
Rafael Caro-Quintero, 70, escaped from a Mexican prison early Sunday when armed men in armored vehicles opened fire from outside the facility during a New Year's Day visitation hour.The incident, which left 17 people dead, including 10 prison guards, is one of the deadliest in modern times.
Caro-Quintero is the leader of the Mexicles, which has connections to the Sinaloa Cartel. He has been heavily involved in drug smuggling for more than 40 years and formerly led the Carborca Cartel until last July, when he was captured by Mexican authorities. The drug lord ordered the kidnapping and murders of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique"Kiki" Camarena, a pilot, American writer, and dentistry student in 1985. The murders were called in by Mexican politicians in the southern state of Guadalajara, where Caro-Quintero is from.
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