Drug Lord Rafael Caro Quintero To Be Arraigned In Ny After Being Transferred From Mexico

Cartel leaders Rafael Caro Quintero and Vicente Carrillo Fuentes are set to be arraigned in a U.S. federal court in New York City on Friday, following their surprise transfer from Mexico .

The pair were among 29 Mexican prisoners sent Thursday to eight cities across the U.S.

Caro Quintero, the former leader of the Guadalajara cartel, was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985 , which marked a low point in U.S.-Mexico relations and was dramatized in the popular Netflix series "Narcos: Mexico."

Carrillo Fuentes is a former leader of the Juarez drug cartel.

The pair are set to appear in federal court in Brooklyn, part of the Eastern District of New York, where Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was previously prosecuted .