Ernesto "Don Neto" Fonseca Carrillo (born 1 August 1930) was a Mexican drug lord and one of the co-founders of the Guadalajara Cartel. He was the uncle of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, "the Lord of the Skies".
Biography[]
Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo was born in Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico in 1930, and he worked for Sinaloa drug lord Pedro Aviles Perez as one of his chief lieutenants during the 1970s. In 1980, he reluctantly accompanied Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo and Rafael Caro Quintero on their business trip to Guadalajara, where he opposed their murder of Hernin Naranjo in a crowded hotel cafe. The three men were later arrested and taken to the police chief Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno, whom Miguel Angel recruited as an ally and a business partner in their planned new organization. That same year, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, Rafael Caro Quintero, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, and Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno co-founded the Guadalajara Cartel, which became the most powerful Mexican cartel of the 1980s.
Downfall[]
Fonseca Carrillo in police custody
In 1982, the DEA indicted Fonseca Carrillo for money laundering in San Diego, California, forcing him to flee back to Mexico. Fonseca supported Miguel Angel's move into the cocaine industry, but, always the most cautious of the Guadalajara bosses, he opposed Caro Quintero and the DFS' kidnapping, torture, and murder of Kiki Camarena due to the unnecessary heat which it brought upon the family. He was captured by the Mexican Army during a bloody shootout at Puerto Vallarta on 7 April 1985 and sentenced to 40 years in prison, and he was transferred to house arrest in July 2016 because of his old age and declining health.
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