Camino "Del" Del Rio (died 2017) was a Mexican drug trafficker and a lieutenant of the Navarro Cartel.
Biography[]
Camino Del Rio was born in Mexico. At the age of nine, he began working for his parents' grocery store, helping to provide for his siblings; he later became involved in organized crime and rose to be a lieutenant of the drug trafficker Omar Navarro. Del Rio was entrusted with handling Navarro's operations in Chicago, where he made contact with the financial advisors Bruce Liddell and Marty Byrde and established a partnership with them, with the Americans laundering the cartel's money for Del Rio. His wife Elena grew close with Byrde's wife Wendy, and Del Rio established a sort of friendship with Byrde. In 2017, however, Del Rio murdered Liddell, his fiancée, and the trucking company owner Clayton Hanson Sr. and his son Clayton Hanson Jr. after they admitted to skimming $8 million from the cartel over the course of three years, and he spared Byrde only when Byrde promised that he could repay the cartel their lost money and make $500 million for them in 5 years if he was allowed to set up a laundering operation near the Lake of the Ozarks. Del Rio agreed, though he kept Byrde under his supervision and repeatedly threatened to murder Byrde's family if he failed to send him the money. After Del Rio's associate Joseph Garcia went missing before he could collect Byrde's money, Del Rio confronted and tortured Byrde, who pleaded his innocence in Garcia's death. Byrde then suggested that Del Rio distribute the Snell family's heroin in exchange for the Snells allowing the Navarros to open a casino on their property to launder the cartel's money. Del Rio had Byrde accompany him to meet with Jacob and Darlene Snell to seal the deal, only for Darlene to shoot Del Rio dead with a shotgun after he responded to her racist language by calling her a "redneck".