A Texas man, who once belonged to a Mexican cartel implicated in the 1985 torture and killing of a U.S. DEA agent, was arrested in Mexico and returned to California on Wednesday to face a charge of probation violation.

Ezequiel Godínez-Cervantes was captured by state police officers in the Pacific coast Mexican state of Baja, California, following a tip from the FBI that he had crossed the border.

Godínez was handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents on Wednesday and arraigned on Thursday in a federal court in El Centro, California.

It was unclear whether he has a lawyer.

Godínez was capture by Mexican authorities in Mexicali, Baja California, on Wednesday and handed over to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency

Godínez was a member of the cartel responsible the 1985 kidnap, torture and murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena (pictured) in Mexico

Mexican-American actor Michael Peña interprets the role of DEA agent Enrique Camarena in 'Narcos: Mexico'

Godínez had been on the run since last year for probation violations involving a 1997 federal court case in California, court records indicate.

That case involved a previous prison escape conviction, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

Godínez from Texas was a member of the now-defunct Guadalajara Cartel, Baja California state police indicated.

The cartel was implicated in the 1985 kidnapping, torture and killing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in Mexico.

A spokesperson for the DEA told DailyMail.com that Godínez was never directly blamed or charged for the killing.

Witnesses at that tried to blame Godínez for the DEA agent's death and also implicated him in the 1984 kidnap-killings of four Jehovah's Witnesses as they sold religious books door-to-door in Mexico.

However, Godínez was not charged in their deaths.

In the 1990s, he was charged with the 1985 slayings of two U.S. residents in Guadalajara.

Godínez charged with 1985 slaying of two U.S. residents in Guadalajara, Mexico, but the charges against him were dropped in 1997

Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo was the leader of the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1980s, and in August 2017 a Mexican court found him guilty for the 1985 assassination of U.S. Drug Enforcement Agent Enrique Camarena

The men, one from Texas and the other from Minnesota, unwittingly entered a bar where drug traffickers were partying and were stabbed with ice picks and beaten to death.

Godínez was arrested in Texas in 1996, but the charges against him were dropped the following year.

Godínez also was convicted of federal drug trafficking charges in Texas in the 1990s.

Mexican-American actor Michael Peña portrayed Camera in the Netflix spin-off series 'Narcos: Mexico', which follows the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel.

Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo spearheaded the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1980s, converting it into one of the most powerful criminal gangs in history by uniting the country's drug traffickers.

Gallardo's cartel dominated the marijuana growth and shipping routes into the United States before his organization connected with the Cali Cartel and Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel and enriched itself through the trafficking of cocaine.

Camarena led an investigation that toppled a marijuana plantation in Mexico and set of a chain of events that would lead to his assassination and the eventual demise of the Guadalajara Cartel.

In August 2017, a Mexican court found Gallardo guilty of Camarena's assassination.