US Angry Over Release Of Drug Lord After 28 Years In Prison For Killing Of US Agent

[Purveyor]

MEXICO CITY — U.S. law enforcement officials expressed outrage over the release from prison of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero and vowed to continue efforts to bring to justice the man who ordered the killing of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent.

Caro Quintero was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of DEA agent Enrique Camarena but a Mexican federal court ordered his release this week saying he had been improperly tried in a federal court for state crimes.

The 60-year-old walked out of a prison in the western state of Jalisco early Friday after serving 28 years of his sentence.

The U.S. Department of Justice said it found the court's decision "deeply troubling."

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/219083361.html

[Benton D Struckcheon]

1. Wow! This brings back memories.

I was on my way back home after visiting Guadalajara with my future wife, where my soon to be mother-in-law was living, when I read about his killing in the NY Times on the plane back home. It was front-page news. That the guy was killed in Guadalajara was a bit disturbing.
Anyway, what they say about bribery and all that down there is the absolute truth. In order to get anything by any bureaucracy you have to move it along with some grease. Ditto for the police doing anything or - more likely for most people - not doing anything about something.