DEA Kiki Camarine's agent was killed in Mexico in 1985. Its alleged killer now in the US

Kikaren's DEA Enrique's agent disappeared in 1985, shortly after he helped punch marijuana's billion dollars in Mexico.

Went to lunch with his wife Mica on February 7, 1985, Kamarine, then 37 years old, was Surrounded by five armed men The who threw it into the car and drove, reports the drug fight. He had to go back to the US only three weeks later, said DEA.

Approximately a month after he disappeared, his body was found About 60 miles on the ranch, DEA reports. He was tortured.

Almost four decades his alleged killer, Lord Drugs Rafael caro quinteroheaded to the US together with 28 other prisoners After asking the US government, the Ministry of Justice confirmed on Thursday night.

“This moment is extremely personal for men and women, who believe that Kar diy dren is responsible for the brutal torture and the murder of the DEA Special Agent” Kiki “Camaro. It is also a victory for the Karen family,” – Acting Administrator Derek S. Malts said in a statement.

“Today, it sends a message to each leader of Cartel, every trader, every criminal poisoning of our communities: you will be held accountable. No matter how much time it takes, no matter how far you work, justice will find you.”

The father of three sons who serve his country

Kamareno, the father of three sons, lived in Guadalajari, Mexico, and his family worked as an agent of secret Dea, his son told CBS News News In 2017 Interview. It was located there for four years on the way of the largest marijuana and cocaine country.

He was in DEA 11 years after serving in the US Marine infantry and as a fire police, officer and deputy sheriff of the Imperial District in the California, where he grew up, DEA reports. Kamarena was born in Mexical, Mexico, and moved to the United States when he was nine years old.

He married his favorite secondary school, and together with his young family, they moved to Mexico in 1981.

At the time the Cartel Guadalajara's leader Pinter He was one of the main vendors of heroin, cocaine and marijuana in the US in the late 1970s. He accused Camarrane of raids of Mexican authorities in 1984 of the marijuana Rancha Buffalo plantation, which upset his case.

At the time, DEA stated that it was the biggest attack of drugs if -the.

It is believed that Kamarine was abducted in Guadalahara, allegedly on the order of Kara quintera.

The son of Kamarine, who shares the same as his father, Enrique, was 11 years old when his father disappeared. He remembered a few hours after he was missing, the agents flooded their family house.

“There are a dozen up to two dozen agents who have arrived in about five to five hours,” Enrique said in an interview with CBS News in an interview with 2017. But he believed his father would return home.

“Well, your dad's superman,” Enrique said. “So you think we'll see it. He's going well.”

Then Enrique and his brothers were left from Mexico to the US, he remembers how the agent took him and transferred him from the living room to the waiting car. He would never see his father again.

Family received a call From the then President Ronald Reagan after the Cameran's body was discovered. The Cameran's wife also met with Reagan at the White House.

Week Red Tape carries his memory forward

Shortly after his death, the members of his hometown of Kalaxico began to wear red ribbons to celebrate their victim and launched a Kamarine club in their honor, DEA reports. Hundreds of club members wore red ribbons and pledged to live without drugs.

In 1985, members of the club presented the “Kamarine Club Declaration” of the then Lady Nancy Reagan, drawing it to national attention. In 1988 Congress is officially created Week Red Ribbonwhich encourages parents, educators and enterprises to promote drugs without drugs. Later, the Enrique S. Camarena educational fund was launched, which provides scholarships for elderly schools.

A monument It was created to commemorate Kamarine in Los -Angeles in 2014.

His son Enrique, who became a judge in 2014 in San Diego, told CBS News that he was carrying his father's lessons in the courtroom. “He taught us to treat everyone honestly.”

Carter Evans and

Andres Triay

He contributed to this report.