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The arrest of cartel chief Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in February 2014 — followed by his escape in July 2015 and rearrest in January 2016 — appears to have kicked off fighting among his sons ...
Prosecutors arrested 14 alleged members of these groups, including “Roque,” the son of Ramon Isaza, who is believed to have been a former Medellin Cartel associate before he helped found the ...
MIAMI – An admitted enforcer for Colombia's once-fearsome Medellin cocaine cartel is facing prison time after pleading guilty to drug charges dating from 1994. A federal judge in Florida is set ...
Fabio Ochoa, center, a former member of Cartel of Medellin, is welcomed by relatives upon arriving at El Dorado airport after being deported from the United States, in Bogota, Colombia, Monday ...
Fabio Ochoa, once a top operator in Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel, was deported to Colombia after serving 25 years of a 30-year sentence in the US. He was released immediately upon arrival in ...
BOGOTA, Colombia — Fabio Ochoa Vasquez, a top member of the Medellin cartel wanted for extradition to the United States, surrendered to Colombian authorities yesterday, after two government d… ...
Fabio Ochoa, center, a former member of Cartel of Medellin, is welcomed by relatives upon arriving at El Dorado airport after being deported from the United States, in Bogota, Colombia, Monday ...
What happened when you got to that stop? The Monaco building is where the Cartel de Cali, these enemies of Pablo Escobar, put a car bomb in 1988. Escobar lived there with his family.
By his own account, Jhon Jairo Velásquez killed hundreds of people as the Medellín cartel flooded the U.S. with cocaine in the 1980s and ’90s and battled the Colombian state and its American ...
Fabio Ochoa, whose family once formed part of Colombia’s notorious Medellin cocaine cartel, is seeking early release from U.S. prison, citing new sentencing guidelines and the coronavirus outbreak.
The eldest of the three Ochoa brothers who founded the Medellin cocaine cartel in the 1980s with Pablo Escobar has died of a heart attack at age 65.