Caro Quintero walked free in 2013 immediately after 28 yrs in jail when a court overturned his 40-year sentence for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of U.S. Caro Quintero was from Badiraguato, Sinaloa, the same area as Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the previous Sinaloa cartel leader now serving a everyday living sentence in the United States.