The World - News from April 18, 1985

A former top Mexican police commander contends that he unwittingly allowed the main suspect in the kidnap-murder of a U.S. drug agent to slip out of his grasp early in the investigation because he failed to recognize him, court testimony disclosed. The ex-officer, Armando Pavon Reyes, told a federal magistrate that reputed narcotics trafficker Rafael Caro Quintero, suspected of a role in the killing of Enrique S. Camarena, passed unrecognized through the Guadalajara airport Feb. 9. Pavon Reyes has been charged with accepting a bribe to allow the escape of Caro Quintero, who was captured in Costa Rica last month and returned to Mexico.