Mexico releases drug kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero

Sunday, August 11, 2013

MEXICO CITY -- Infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero walked free Friday after 28 years in prison when a court overturned his 40-year sentence for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, a brutal murder that marked a low point in U.S.-Mexico relations.

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