gained time to prevent his extradition to the United States and told a Mexico City tribunal that he doesn’t have resources to flee the country.
Moreover, Caro Quintero requested that one of the magistrates is banned from participating in his trial .
The infamous drug lord is accused of murdering DEA agent “Kiki Camarena. ”
The tribunal has yet to decide if the Mexican drug trafficker is extradited to the U.S., where authorities have requested his extradition for the last 35 years.
In his request, Caro Quintero claims he doesn’t have money and that he can’t work because he is considered a fugitive . He also argues he is “over 60 years old, he doesn’t have a pension and he isn’t retired (…) he is prevented from working or performing an activity to acquire resources.”
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The U.S. government offers USD 20 million for information that leads to the arrest of the Mexican drug lord .
was imprisoned in federal prison for 28 years but he was released after a federal tribunal granted him an amparo in August 2013.
The decision was revoked by the Supreme Court in November 2013. In 2015, a Guadalajara tribunal took legal actions against Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca , aka “Don Neto,” for the kidnapping and homicide of DEA agent “Kiki” Camarena and Mexican pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar .
Authorities issued an arrest warrant against the criminal so they fulfill a 12-year prison sentence; meanwhile, “Don Neto” is under house arrest.
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