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miguel caro quintero la noria , badiraguato , sinaloa , mexico 150px mexican rafael caro quintero
 arrested . he was released from prison on august 9 , in 2013 . costa rica on april 4 , 1985 emilio mother -rrb- caro payán -lrb- father -rrb- hermelinda quintero -lrb- 3 october 1952 founder of guadalajara cartel rafael caro quintero
rafael caro quintero

rafael caro quintero -lrb- born october 3 , 1952 -rrb- is a mexican drug trafficker who founded the now-disintegrated guadalajara cartel with miguel Ángel félix gallardo and other drug traffickers in the 1970s .
he is the brother of fellow drug trafficker miguel caro quintero , the founder and former leader of the extinct sonora cartel who remains incarcerated .
having formed the guadalajara cartel in the 1970s , caro quintero worked with gallardo , ernesto fonseca carrillo , and pedro avilés pérez by shipping large sums of marijuana to the united states from mexico .
he was allegedly responsible for the kidnapping and murder of the u.s. drug enforcement administration -lrb- dea -rrb- agent enrique camarena salazar , his pilot alfredo zavala avelar , american writer john clay walker and dentistry student alberto radelat in 1985 .
after the alleged murders , he fled to costa rica but was later arrested and extradited back to mexico , where he was sentenced to 40-years in prison for murder .
following his arrest , the guadalajara cartel disintegrated , and its leaders were incorporated into the tijuana cartel and sinaloa cartel and juárez cartels .
caro quintero was freed from jail on august 9 , 2013 after a state court concluded that he had been tried improperly .
however , amid pressure from the u.s. government to re-arrest him , a mexican federal court issued an arrest warrant against quintero on august 14 .
he is a wanted fugitive in mexico , the u.s. , and in several other countries .
