Drug trafficking Ernesto “Don Neto” Fonseca CarrilloWho was convicted in the 1985 murder of an agent of the drug control of the United States, was released from the prison after completing his 40 -year sentence, a federal agent confirmed on Wednesday night.
Fonseca, 94, had the leg that served the reminder of his sentence under confinement at home outside of Mexico City since Bee moved from prison in 2016. The federal agent, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The co -founder of the Guadalajara poster along with Rafael Caro QuinteroFonseca was convicted of the kidnapping, torture and murder of the agent of the Enrique “Kiki” Camarena.
He went to a lunch with his wife, Mika, on February 7, 1985, Camarena, who was then 37 years old, was surrounded by five armed men who threw him into a car and moved away, according to the DEA. He had his leg to transfer back to the United States only three weeks later.
Approximately a month after it disappeared, Camarena’s body was found in a ranch about 60 miles away, according to the DEA. I had a tortured leg.
Caro Quintero, who was also convicted of the murder, was one of the figures of 29 posters Mexico Sent to the United States In February.
It was not clear immediately if the United States would also see Fonseca, who appears on the DEA website as a fugitive for “kidnapping and murder of a federal agent.”
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Fonseca was arrested in Puerto Vallarta in 1985.
Camarena, father of three children, lived in Guadalajara, Mexico, with his family working as an undercover Dea agent, his son told CBS News in a 2017 interview. He had been parked there for four years on the road to the greatest traffic of marijuana and cocaine in the country.
FACE TABACHNICK contributed to this report.