Posted on 02/26/2009 9:51:19 AM PST by La Lydia
Mexico has agreed to extradite to the United States a man arrested years ago in Mexico on charges that he trafficked cocaine and marijuana for over a decade, FOX News has learned. Miguel Caro-Quintero allegedly is the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, suspected of cultivating, producing and distributing marijuana. The cartel owns many ranches in Sonora, located close to the U.S. border.
Drugs allegedly are stored at the ranches, and drug operations into the United States are staged. Methamphetamine, cocaine and a variety of other drugs and weapons are suspected to be part of their massive and powerful illegal trade.
The agreement on Caro-Quintero's extradition was related to a drug cartel crackdown announced Wednesday that involved the arrest of hundreds of suspects. He was handed over to U.S. officials Wednesday in Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, according to the Associated Press.
Caro-Quintero is the brother of Rafael, a legendary drug baron, who is in a Mexican prison for the 1985 slaying of DEA Special Agent Kiki Camarena....Caro-Quintero's extradition brings the number of suspects sent to the United States to 195 since President Felipe Calderon took office in 2006.
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To be the zer0 and his thugs' exclusive supplier?
But by arresting him, aren’t we making the problem worse?
I mean, if we are only making more terrorists by fighting terrorism, are we making more drug lords by fighting drug lordism??
Well of course. Because we are the problem, not the narcotraficantes. But we didn’t arrest him, the Mexicans did, and have had him for four years.
I bet our politicians, in both parties, are going to try to give him Amnesty.
This drug thug should be meat-hooked and dumped off somewhere in Mexico
I seriously doubt this one will get amnesty. He has been in our sights for 15 years. He is wanted on four drug and money-laundering indictments in Arizona and Colorado. He is directly linked to the murder of a DEA agent. If Eric Holder lets this one go, he has lost what is left of his mind. And we will no doubt get to pay for his defense.
He probably failed to pay off his chain of command, that leads right into D.C.
Holder continues his attack on 2nd Amendment
02/25/2009
At a press conference today announcing the drug cartel arrests (in which he had little to no involvement), US AG Holder also suggested that re-instituting a U.S. ban on the sale of assault weapons would help reduce the bloodshed in Mexico, where last year 6,000 people were killed in drug-related violence.
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They are killing each other in Mexico. We are arresting them in this country. We have put a dent in their operations, but we have not stopped them. However, what the DEA and Justice did (that Holder took credit for, but actually had nothing to do with) has disrupted their business but not ended it. We need several hundred more of these operations. What Mexico needs is a Mexican version of the Colombian Los Pepes. If Colombia can do it, the Mexicans can, and certainly we can. And if we quit selling them assault weapons, they will get them from somewhere else.
What is your evidence for that? AFAIK, there has never been a marijuana shortage in the country since the ONDCP was created 20 years ago. When scarcities develop, prices rise, and purity decreases, I'll believe it.
We need several hundred more of these operations. What Mexico needs is a Mexican version of the Colombian Los Pepes. If Colombia can do it, the Mexicans can, and certainly we can.
Several hundred. The bust announced yesterday took 21 months and lord knows how many resources. Do you think we're going to have hundreds of these?
And if we quit selling them assault weapons, they will get them from somewhere else.
Of course, but that won't stop Eric Holder. Maybe he'll propose hundreds of task forces to deal with the problem.
Why not end marijuana prohibition and really put a dent in the cartels?
John P. Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said marijuana, not heroin or cocaine, is the "bread and butter," "the center of gravity" for Mexican drug cartels that every year smuggle tons of it through the porous U.S.-Mexico border. Of the $13.8 billion that Americans contributed to Mexican drug traffickers in 2004-05, about 62 percent, or $8.6 billion, comes from marijuana consumption.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/022208dnintdrugs.3a98bb0.html
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