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...found $40,000 in cash, $150,000 in traveler's checks and a gold-plated pistol. They also discovered Sara Cosio Martinez, the 17-year-old niece of a Mexican politician, who had apparently been kidnaped earlier this month. Best of all, the police arrested Mexican Drug King Rafael Caro Quintero, 32, also known as El Chapo (Shorty). Said U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese: "We're dealing with one of the major drug traffickers in the world...
Although no specific charges have been filed against him so far, Caro Quintero is believed to have masterminded the murders of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar and a Mexican pilot who frequently flew for the agency; their badly beaten bodies were found in central Mexico last month. That incident severely strained U.S.-Mexican relations as U.S. officials accused Mexican authorities of helping Caro Quintero flee the country. At week's end El Chapo was flown to Mexico, where the U.S. hoped he would be prosecuted...
...arrested officer, Commander Gabriel Gonzalez Gonzalez, died in police custody. Mexican authorities, insisting that Gonzalez died of natural causes, described him as a cocaine addict and an "intimate friend" of alleged Drug Kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero. But U.S. officials considered Gonzalez trustworthy: as Jalisco's top homicide detective for Guadalajara, Gonzalez had been investigating the Camarena kidnaping and the disappearance of six other Americans in recent months...
...toward soothing U.S.-Mexican tensions aroused by the Camarena case: he complimented the Mexicans for moving "so quickly." But he prodded them further. The other two kidnapers might also be police, he hinted, and noted they had not yet been caught. Also at large is Rafael "El Chapo" (Shorty) Caro Quintero, a drug dealer suspected of ordering Camarena's murder...
...prime suspects in the Camarena-Zavala case are still two Mexican drug kingpins, Miguel Felix Gallardo and Rafael Caro Quintero. But the U.S. believes that Mexico's gangland "families" have been operating with wide- scale police protection. Officers who were supposedly tracking Caro Quintero in connection with the Camarena case claimed they simply failed to recognize the well-known crook when he boarded a private plane in Guadalajara two days after the agent's abduction. Caro Quintero flew to Caborca, a remote desert town where he may now be in hiding...