Rafael Caro Quintero, whose role in the murder as well as the torture of an American drug agent in 1985 was described in the Netflix drama series Narcos: Mexico, is detained by an international law enforcement group. He was a co-founder of the Guadalajara Cartel, considered one of the most powerful drug trafficking organizations in Mexico in the 1980s, writes Deadline..

Netflix series focuses on the early days of Mexican drug cartels. Several factions banded together and expanded the loosely organized group of manufacturers and dealers into a complex transnational business conglomerate.. In the series, the role of Quintero was played by actor Tenoch Huerth..

The violent group was infamous for the torture and high-profile murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena.. Caro Quintero was among those convicted for the death.

Quintero spent 28 years in prison for the murder of Camarena, but was released on technical grounds in 2013 by a Mexican judge, embarrassing the previous government.. He then went into hiding and allegedly returned to drug trafficking as part of the Sinaloa cartel.. He was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list and had a $20 million bounty on his head, a record for drug dealers..

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The US government welcomed the arrest of Caro Quintero and requested his extradition.

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The Mexican Navy reported that Caro Quintero was caught in the municipality of Shua in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, one of Mexico's drug trafficking hubs.. According to the Navy, he was found among the bushes by a bloodhound trained to search for criminals named Max..

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