A helicopter that accompanied the transfer of the historic drug kingpin detained in Mexico collapsed: 14 dead

A helicopter of the Secretary of the Navy (Semar) of Mexico that would have participated in the capture operation and then in the transfer of the historical drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quintero, in the mountains between the states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua, in the north of the country, collapsed this Friday close to Los Mochis International Airport, leading to the deaths of 14 officers.

With a press release, Semar denounced the incident which occurred, as indicated, during the operational activities carried out by this body.

He specified that the helicopter “carried 15 people, of which, unfortunately, 14 lost their lives and one is receiving medical treatment“.

“A Mexican Navy plane had an accident in Los Mochis, Sinaloa. Based on the information available at the time, a Black Hawk helicopter had an accident, the causes of the same are unknown at the moment“, indicated the statement reproduced by the EFE agency.

The Semar, which regrets the accident and the deaths, specified that the relevant investigations will be carried out to determine the causes that could cause the accident of said aircraft.

After the versions handled by the media, the agency made it clear that “until now There is no information that the plane crash is related to detention of the alleged drug trafficker.

The boss was wanted for the 1985 kidnapping and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena and for other offenses related to drug trafficking and organized crime.

Founder of the Guadalajara cartel, Caro Quintero was a leading boss in the 1980s and one of the first to ship large-scale drugs to the United States.

Born on October 3, 1952 in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, cradle of the great Mexican leaders, Caro Quintero, who amassed a great fortune, founded his cartel together with Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, aka “Don Neto”.

The arrest of Caro Quintero comes a few days after the meeting of the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, with his American counterpart, Joe Biden.

Dear Quintero he was also the head of Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmánto whom he gave work as a hitman when he started the criminal activity and later also became a legend among drug traffickers.

A dog was instrumental in the arrest of Rafael Caro Quintero

Mexican chief Caro Quintero, the most wanted fugitive from the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, in English), was arrested this Friday in the municipality of San Simón (Choix), in the state of Sinaloa, and in his discovery a dog attendedspecified the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) of the government of Mexico.

In a statement, the agency indicated that Caro Quintero, 69, he was hiding in the bushes and an institute dog, trained in search and rescue, helped him in his position.

“It has been reported that the above target was located in the bushes by a canine member of this institution, called ‘Max’, whose search and rescue training enabled its location,” the agency said in the report. report.

With information from agencies

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