San Diego, California – A notorious Mexican drug cartel leader convicted in the 1985 murder of DEA Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena has been released from custody after completing his prison sentence, according to a federal official cited by the Associated Press.
Ernesto “Don Neto” Fonseca Carrillo, 94, had been serving a 40-year sentence for his role in the kidnapping, torture, and killing of Camarena. Since 2016, Fonseca had been serving the remainder of his sentence under home confinement outside Mexico City due to age and health concerns. He was released last weekend.
Fonseca, a co-founder of the Guadalajara Cartel, was convicted alongside Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, who are also accused of orchestrating the brutal murder of Camarena and his pilot, Alfredo Zavala-Avelar. The two were abducted on Feb. 7, 1985, outside the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara, tortured for over 24 hours, and murdered. Their bodies were found a month later in a shallow grave roughly 60 miles away…