Additional Sentence Given to Drug Lord Tied to DEA Killing
A drug lord convicted in the slaying of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent has been sentenced to an additional 11 years in prison on a marijuana charge, news reports said last week.
Rafael Caro Quintero, 37, was given the extra jail term for cultivating and selling marijuana, the El Universal newspaper reported.
In 1989, Caro Quintero was sentenced to 40 years in prison without parole for the 1985 slaying of DEA agent Enrique Camarena Salazar and Camarena’s Mexican pilot, Alfredo Zavala Avelar. The two men were kidnaped and tortured before being killed near Guadalajara.
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