Quadalajara Cartel founder Don Neto was released after 40 years

Ernesto Fonseka, founder of Guadalajara Cartel, walked free on Saturday after completing a 40 -year prison in Mexico.

Fonsheka, also known as “Don Neto”, was sentenced to her role for the killing of “Kiki” Kamarena, the agencies of torture and the US drug enforcement administration (DEA). The 94 -year -old Fonsheka was held in the house in prison since 2016.

Although DEA still maintains a “desired” notification Fonsheka on its website, Unnamed Mexican official told the Reformed Newspaper Don Netto revealed his prison, no outstanding allegations, free to travel into Mexico.

Neither the US judiciary nor the DEA has issued a public report on Fonshea’s release.

When he heard about the case at a press conference on Thursday morning, Mexico’s president Gladia Shinebam said he was unaware of any request from US officials regarding Fonsheka.

“I don’t know anything about the DEA or any US agency may inquire about it,” he said. “I asked the members of my defense cabinet this morning. They told me that he had completed his punishment.”

Who is Don Neto?

Fonsheka is the same hometown of Joagan “El Chauo” Kusman, a drug Kingpin Providing life imprisonment in US maximum security prison. Both were born in Padrakwado of Sinalova.

Fonsheka founded together Quadalajara cartelIt dominated drug trafficking in Mexico in the 1980s and controlled the main trafficking paths to the United States.

In 1982, the DEA accused Fonsheka of California’s San Diego, but he fled to Mexico before he was arrested.

Agent Kamarena was abducted, tortured and murdered in February 1985 Quadalajara Cartel Marijuana Garden Checking The DEA has called its largest drug seizure.

On April 7, 1985, Dan Netto was arrested for the murder of Kamaarena in Puerto Vallarda, but then continued to compete for both criminal and civil accusations for decades.

A Mexican Appeal Court Fonsheka was released in March 2017. The Court of Appeal gave him a form of the initial publication given to the prisoners who usually completed most of their sentences.

However, Mexico’s Federal Attorney General’s Office canceled the appeal, and Fonsheka was under house arrest.

In 2022, Fonshea won an injunction against a civil court ruling, which was ordered to pay 20.8 million pesos ($ 1.2 million) to the family of the murdered DEA agent and his pilot’s relatives, Alfredo Jawala, which was tortured and killed in the same incident.

In March 2025, the Camerana family filed civil charges against Fonshea in the US federal court in San Diego.

Second Quadalajara Cartel meets a different rule

Another important person in the murder of the DEA agent was recently transferred to US officials. Rafale Caro Quintro In 29 Cartel statistics that were transferred to the United States on February 27 Fight the drug trafficking as part of a bilateral effort between neighboring countries.

In the 1980s, Caro Queetero was one of the best suppliers of heroin, cocaine and marijuana to the United States, saying that Deia insisted that he had ordered the abduction of Caro Quinto Kamarena in response to the attack on Ranjo Befelo.

Like Fonshea, Caro Quintro was sometimes able to use Mexico’s judicial system in favor of him. He was released from jail in 2013 after the appeal of the Court of Appeal was canceled his murder sentence.

The Supreme Court of Mexico ruled it three months later. A new warrant for Caro Quintro’s arrest was issued, and the US government rewarded $ 5 million for information that he was arrested. He was finally Re -captured in July 2022.

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