Mexican court grants home confinement to the 76-year-old sick drug lord, who was featured in Narcos: Mexico and whose cartel ordered the 1985 murder of a DEA agent

• Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, the co-founder of the defunct Guadalajara Cartel, was granted home confinement by a Mexico City court last Wednesday
• The 76-year-old is serving a 40-year sentence for racketeering, bribery and weapons possession that ends in 2029
• He will then have to start serving a 30-year term for the 1985 murder of Drug Enforcement Administration agent Kiki Camarena
• Félix Gallardo, who is known as ‘The Boss of the Bosses,’ inspired the Netflix series, Narcos: Mexico 
• The criminal organization’s marijuana smuggling was the target of an investigation led by Camarena 
• The cartel had Camarena and Mexican pilot and DEA employee Alfredo Zavala Avelar kidnapped and murdered in February 1985

A Mexican court has granted home confinement to Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, the notorious former drug lord whose cartel was responsible for the 1985 murder of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Kiki Camarena.

Félix Gallardo, who is known as ‘The Boss of the Bosses’ and ‘The Godfather,’ has been in prison since 1989 for the kidnapping and killing of Camarena.

A court sentenced the 76-year-old to 40 years in prison in 1989 for crimes that included racketeering, firearms possession and bribery. However, it wasn’t until 2017 that a court found him guilty of the special agent’s murder and handed him a 37-year sentence.

Last Wednesday, a judge with the Seventh District of Federal Criminal Proceedings court approved Félix Gallardo’s remaining sentence to be served in the confines of his residence because of his poor health. 

While the sentence for racketeering, firearms possession and bribery ends in 2029, he will still have to serve the sentence for Camarena’s killing.

DailyMail.com reached out to the DEA for comment.

Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (pictured in a 2021 interview with Telemundo) was granted home confinement last Tuesday. Known as ‘The Boss of the Bosses’ and ‘The Godfather,’ the 76-year-old has been in prison since 1989 when he was arrested and then sentenced to 30 years for racketeering, firearm possession and bribery. In 2017, a court handed him a 40-year prison term for the 1985 murder of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Kiki Camarena

The investigation led by DEA agent Kiki Camarena brought down the Guadalajara Cartel, but not before he was kidnapped, tortured and killed by the criminal organization in 1985

A prior request to complete the remainder of his sentence at home was denied by a Mexico City court February 20, 2019.

In an August 2021 jail house interview with Telemundo, Félix Gallardo complained about his failing health, indicating ‘half of my body (is) paralyzed.’

He lost vision in his right eye and is deaf in his left ear. In addition, he has undergone eight hernia removal surgeries. He also injured his arm during a fall inside prison.

Félix Gallardo was a federal police officer before he founded the Guadalajara Cartel with Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Rafael Caro Quintero, the latter who is awaiting extradition to the United States for Camarena’s killing.

Camarena died at the age 37, leaving behind a wife and three children, including one who is now a judge in California.

As the leader of the defunct Guadalajara Cartel, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo groomed Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán and Amado Carrillo Fuentes who is also known as ‘The Lord of the Skies’

The body of DEA agent Enrique Camarena was flown in a casket from Mexico to an Air Force base in California on March 8, 1985, a month after he was abducted and killed by the Guadalajara Cartel

Shockingly, the frail cartel boss told the network that he had no idea who Fonseca Carrillo and Caro Quintero were – the trio started out smuggling marijuana to the United States before they formed a partnership with Pablo Escobar to ship cocaine to America.

‘I don’t know them,’ he said. ‘We did not meet on the street. These people and I have never chatted.’

Additionally, Félix Gallardo groomed some of Mexico’s most powerful drug lords like Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, Amado Carrillo Fuentes who is also known as ‘The Lord of the Skies,’ Héctor Luis ‘El Güero’ Palma Salazar and his nephews, the Arellano-Félix brothers. 

Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero (center) was arrested by security forces in Sinaloa on July 15.  He now awaits extradition to the United States, where he is accused of killing DEA agent Kiki Camarena in 1985

Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo was one of the Guadalajara Cartel’s three founders

Félix Gallardo, who is portrayed in the hit Netflix series Narcos: Mexico, has always distanced himself from Camarena’s killing.

The cartel sought revenge on Camarena after the Mexican military raided a 2,500-acre marijuana plantation in 1984. Caro Quintero accused Camarena for a raid and his henchmen kidnapped him in Guadalajara on February 7, 1985.

Mexican pilot Alfredo Zavala, who was employed by the Mexican government and the DEA, was kidnapped the same day in a separate incident.

The tortured bodies of Camarena and Zavala were located on March 5, 1985, wrapped in plastic and dumped at an abandoned property in La Angostura, a city in the state of Michoacán.

‘It is a very sad subject. This Mr. Camarena, whoever they were, whoever did it, the perpetrators and masterminds are behind bars; they’ve paid with their lives in prison, and they’ve had a very rough time,’ Félix Gallardo told Telemundo. ‘I’m not aware why they’ve linked me to that crime. I never met that man. Let me reiterate: I’m not into weapons. I’m really sorry because I know he was a good man.’

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