Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, one of the founders of Mexico’s Guadalajara Cartel, has been released after serving 40 years for his role in the 1985 killing of a DEA agent. He had been serving the last part of his sentence under house arrest since 2016. Mexican officials say he has no more legal issues in the country and is now free to move around within Mexico.
Fonseca, known as “Don Neto,” was convicted for the kidnapping, torture, and murder of US DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena. The crime took place in February 1985. Fonseca is now 94 years old.
Although the DEA website still lists Fonseca as “Wanted,” a Mexican official told a newspaper that his sentence is over, and he is no longer facing charges. So far, neither the DEA nor the US Justice Department has made any public comment on his release, reports Reforma.
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum was asked about the case during her press conference on Thursday.
“I have no knowledge that the DEA or any US agency might be inquiring about this,” she said. “I asked members of my Security Cabinet this morning and they told me he had completed his sentence.