US deports Medellín Cartel co-founder Fabio Ochoa to Colombia
The criminal was in prison for more than two decades. Under his command, the organization managed to bring more than 30 tons of cocaine into the United States every month.
Fabio Ochoa, after being deported to Colombia.
Justice authorized the deportation of Colombian criminal Fabio Ochoa Vásquez to Colombia after serving a sentence of more than two decades in a U.S. prison.
Ochoa, 67, was sentenced in 2003 to more than 30 years in prison and fined $25,000 for being, along with Pablo Escobar and other capos, one of the founders of the Medellin Cartel, one of the most dangerous criminal organizations in the world.
While co-leading the cartel, he managed to bring in around 30 tons of cocaine a month into the United States.
He is the second co-founder of the Medellín Cartel to obtain extradition to his home country. In 2020, the United States deported Carlos Rambo Lehder, who settled in Germany due to his citizenship.
After voluntarily surrendering to the Colombian justice system in 1990 to benefit from reduced sentences imposed in the code by former president César Gaviria, Ochoa remained in prison until 1996.
Upon his release from prison, Ochoa recided and continued trafficking drugs, a crime for which he was charged and arrested in 1999, and sent to the United States to stand trial.
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