Rafael Caro Quintello was found hiding in a bush by a detector dog named Max (Image: AP).

At least 14 people were killed in a military operation capturing a notorious drug trafficking organization that had been on the run for nearly a decade.

Rafael Caro Quintello, 69, notoriously ordered the torture and murder of US anti-drug agents in Mexico in 1985.

He was imprisoned in Mexico for 40 years, but after spending only 28 years in prison, he managed to escape in 2013 and went straight to drug trafficking.

The criminal, who was a major supplier of heroin, cocaine and marijuana to the United States in the late 1970s, rewarded the FBI’s top nominee list with $20m (£16.8m) in 2018. I did it.

He was finally captured this week after finding a detector dog named Max hiding in a bush in the town of San Simón, Sinaloa.

The operation was successful, but it cost a lot.

A Blackhawk helicopter carrying 15 people on a mission crashed near the coastal town of Rosmochi, killing 14 people. The only survivor was seriously injured.

This government-issued photo provided by the Mexican Secretary of the Navy escorts Rafael Caro Quintello, a drug trafficker, captured in his native mountain in Sinaloa, Mexico, on Friday, July 15, 2022. He was a 6-year-old bloodhound named “Max” who brought Carocintello out of the underworld. (Secretariat of the Mexican Navy via AP)

Agent escorts drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quintello (Image: AP)

On Friday, July 15, 2022, an emergency worker working with a Navy Blackhawk helicopter crashed after assisting in the arrest of the Rafael Caro Quintello drug trafficking organization near Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. (AP Photo/Guillermo Juarez)

Rescuers working with the Navy Blackhawk helicopter crashed after helping those who made the arrest (Image: AP)

A Mexican sailor and his 6-year-old dog “Max” walk towards a waiting helicopter (Image: AP)

Rafael Caro Quintello was arrested.

Rafael Caro Quintello will be held in the Altiplano Penal (Image: Getty)

FBI Most Wanted List,

The FBI provided Quintero with $20m (£16.8m) in 2018 (Image: Getty)

FILE PHOTO: Undated file photo: Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintello is shown behind this bar of undated file photos. Kintero won his first appeal against his conviction and 40 years in prison for killing US DEA agent Enrique Camalena in 1985. Kintero remains in prison while the prosecutor appeals the decision. Mexican drug / file photo

Kintero escaped 40 years in prison in 2013 (Image: Reuters)

Mexican authorities called the tragedy an “accident,” but the cause has not been identified.

Quintello will be held in the Altiplano prison, about 50 miles west of Mexico City, until he is handed over to the United States.

Former leaders of the Guadalajara Cartel fear their violence and are considered a major player in the turf war that has plagued Sonora, Mexico’s northern border region, for many years.

With the help of corrupt officials, Kintero ordered the kidnapping and murder of 37-year-old U.S. agent Enrique Camalena on February 7, 1985.

Kintero accused the agent of attacking one of his marijuana farms last year.

The infamous drug lord is also believed to have ordered the torture and murder of American tourists John Clay Walker, 36, and Albert Laderat, 33, on January 30, 1985.

Ambitious novelist Johnny and dental student Laderat are said to have happened at one of Kintero’s private parties.

Kintero allegedly mistook them for drugs and ordered them to be taken to a restaurant warehouse, beaten with ice cream and tortured.

Radarati is believed to have been still alive when Radarati and his friends were wrapped in a cloth and buried.

Their bodies were discovered six months later.

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