Caro Quintero walked free in 2013 just after 28 years in jail when a court overturned his 40-12 months sentence for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of U.S. Caro Quintero was from Badiraguato, Sinaloa, the identical area as Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the previous Sinaloa cartel leader now serving a lifetime sentence in the United States.