Mexican drug lord convicted in killing of DEA agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena is freed

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A Mexican cause lord was released from custody aft being convicted successful the 1985 sidesplitting of Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena.

Ernesto "Don Neto" Fonseca Carrillo, 1 of the co-founders of the Guadalajara Cartel, was freed past play aft completing his 40-year sentence, a national cause confirmed to the Associated Press.

Fonseca, 94, had been serving the remainder of his condemnation nether location confinement extracurricular Mexico City since being moved from situation successful 2016. The DEA did not instantly respond to a petition for remark Thursday from Fox News Digital.

Rafael Caro Quintero, different Guadalajara Cartel co-founder who besides was convicted successful the murder, was 1 of 29 cartel figures Mexico sent to the United States successful February. It’s unclear if the U.S. is present looking to bring Fonseca into custody.

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Casket of slain U.S. Drug Enforcement cause Enrique Camarena

U.S. Marine Corps pallbearers transportation the casket holding the assemblage of slain U.S. Drug Enforcement cause Enrique Camarena aft it arrived astatine North Island Naval Air Station, successful San Diego, successful March 1985. (AP/Lenny Ignelzi)

At the clip of his murder, the DEA and Camarena had been utilizing a bid of wiretaps to marque sizeable cause busts wrong Mexico.

In February 1985, arsenic Camarena near to conscionable his woman for luncheon extracurricular the U.S. consulate successful Guadalajara, helium was surrounded by officers from the DFS, a Mexican quality bureau that nary longer exists.

"Back successful the mediate 1980s, the DFS, their main relation was to support the cause lords," erstwhile DEA cause Hector Berrellez, who led the probe into Camarena's murder, told Fox News successful 2013.

The DFS agents past took Camarena, blindfolded and held astatine gunpoint, to 1 of Caro Quintero's haciendas nearby.

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Caramena was killed successful Mexico successful 1985. (DEA)

For much than 30 hours, Caro-Quintero and others interrogated Camarena and crushed his skull, jaw, chemoreceptor and cheekbones with a tyre iron. They broke his ribs, drilled a spread successful his caput and tortured him with a cattle prod. As Camarena laic dying, Caro-Quintero ordered a cartel doc to support the U.S. cause alive.

The 37-year-old’s assemblage was recovered dumped connected a adjacent ranch astir a period later.

In 2013, Caro Quintero walked escaped aft serving 28 years successful prison. He was released aft a tribunal overturned his 40-year condemnation for the kidnapping and sidesplitting of Camarena.