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Legendary Medellin cartel drug lord launched from U.S. jail after serving 25 years
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Legendary Medellin cartel drug lord launched from U.S. jail after serving 25 years

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By Tycoon Herald 3 Min Read Published December 5, 2024
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Legendary Medellin cartel drug lord launched from U.S. jail after serving 25 years

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MIAMI — Considered one of Colombia’s legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cocaine cartel has been launched from a U.S. jail and is anticipated to be deported again house.

Data from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons present Fabio Ochoa Vásquez was launched Tuesday after finishing 25 years of a 30-year jail sentence.

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Ochoa, 67, and his older brothers amassed a fortune when cocaine began flooding the U.S. within the late Seventies and early Nineteen Eighties, in line with U.S. authorities, to the purpose that in 1987 they have been included within the Forbes Journal’s checklist of billionaires. Residing in Miami, Ochoa ran a distribution middle for the cocaine cartel as soon as headed by Pablo Escobar.

Though considerably pale from reminiscence as the middle of the drug commerce shifted from Colombia to Mexico, he resurfaced within the hit Netflix sequence “Narcos” true to kind because the youngest son of an elite Medellin household into ranching and horse breeding that minimize a pointy distinction with Escobar, who got here from extra humble roots.

Ochoa was first indicted within the U.S. for his alleged function within the 1986 killing of Drug Enforcement Administration informant Barry Seal — whose life was popularized within the 2017 movie “American Made” starring Tom Cruise.

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He was initially arrested in 1990 in Colombia underneath a authorities program promising drug kingpins wouldn’t be extradited to the U.S. On the time, he was on the U.S. checklist of the “Dozen Most Wanted” Colombia drug lords.

Ochoa was arrested once more and extradited to the U.S. in 2001 in response to an indictment in Miami naming him and greater than 40 folks as a part of a drug smuggling conspiracy. Of these, Ochoa was the one one who opted to go to trial, leading to his conviction and the 30-year sentence. The opposite defendants received a lot lighter jail phrases as a result of most of them cooperated with the federal government.

Richard Gregorie, a retired assistant U.S. lawyer who was on the prosecution crew that convicted Ochoa, mentioned authorities have been by no means capable of seize all the Ochoa household’s illicit drug proceeds and he expects that Ochoa can have a welcome return house.

“He won’t be retiring a poor man, that’s for sure,” Gregorie informed The Related Press.

Richard Klugh, a Miami-based lawyer for Ochoa, declined to remark.

However in years of litigation, he argued unsuccessfully that his consumer deserved to be launched early as a result of his sentence far exceeded what was applicable for the quantity of seized cocaine that authorities might attribute to Ochoa.

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