14 dead in Black Hawk chopper crash in Mexico after drug lord's arrest
India Today
A total of 14 people were killed on Friday after a Mexican Navy helicopter crashed in Sinaloa, navy officials said in a statement.
Mexico’s Navy said on Friday that 14 people were killed and another person was injured after a Black Hawk military helicopter crashed in the northern state of Sinaloa.
The cause of the crash is being investigated, but so far there is no information indicating the incident was related to the arrest of drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero in another part of Sinaloa on Friday, the Navy said in a statement.
On Friday, the Navy captured notorious drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, convicted for the murder and torture of a US anti-narcotics agent in 1985.
The kingpin rose to prominence as a co-founder of the Guadalajara Cartel, one of Latin America's most powerful drug trafficking organizations during the 1980s, and was among the most prized targets for US officials.
The US government hailed the arrest, and said it would waste no time in requesting his extradition. "This is huge," White House senior Latin America adviser Juan Gonzalez said on Twitter.
The Mexican Navy said in a statement Caro Quintero was caught in the municipality of Choix in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, one of Mexico's drug-trafficking heartlands.
He was found in shrub land by a military-trained female bloodhound named Max, the Navy said.
