Attorney General to Fight Release of Drug Lord Behind US Agents Murder Big Pond
go to original August 14, 2013

Rafael Caro Quintero, seen at a Guadalajara prison in 2005, has had his conviction for ordering the murder of a DEA agent overturned. (AFP/Getty Images)

Mexico's attorney general says the government will appeal the court ruling that set free Rafael Caro Quintero, a drug lord convicted of killing a US drug agent in 1985.

Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam says the government is 'preparing' an appeal to overturn the verdict, which set Caro Quintero free 28 years into a 40-year sentence.

Murillo Karam declined to respond when asked if the government knew the current whereabouts of the 60-year-old, who left prison on Friday.

Caro Quintero was convicted of ordering the 1985 abduction, torture and killing of US drug enforcement agent Enrique Camarena and his Mexican pilot Alfredo Zavala.

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