Drug boss Fabio Ochoa after 20 years in US custody again in freedom
Drug boss Fabio Ochoa after 20 years in US custody again in freedom
in Bogotá, Colombia, one of the infamous drug bosses in the country, Fabio Ochoa, was deported back to Colombia after 25 years in prison. He had served a 30-year punishment and was received on Monday in Bogotá at El Dorado Airport.
arrival in Colombia
ochoa, which was dressed in a gray sweatshirt, arrived in a plastic bag with his personal objects. After landing, he was welcomed by immigration officers in bulletproof west. There were no police officers to arrest him. The National immigration authority of Colombia immediately published a brief explanation on the social platform X. It was said that Ochoa was "released to return to his family" after his fingerprints were taken and checked in a database, which confirmed that he was not searched for by the Colombian authorities.
Fabio Ochoa, 67 years old, and his older brothers earned a fortune when large quantities of cocaine came to the USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. According to the US authorities, they were included in the list of forbes magazine in 1987. Ochoa lived in Miami and operated a distribution center for the cocaine cartel, which was once managed by Pablo Escobar, which died in 1993 in a change of shooting with the authorities in Medellín.
the criminal prosecution
ochoa was for the first time in the United States because of its alleged role in the murder of Barry Seal, an American pilot, who carried out cocaine flights for the Medellin Cartel, but later became an informant of the drug control authority. Together with his two older brothers, Juan David and Jorge Luis, Ochoa faced the Colombian authorities in the early 1990s as part of a deal that prevented their delivery to the USA. The three brothers were released from prison in 1996, but Ochoa was arrested again three years later for drug trafficking and in 2001 due to an indictment in Miami, who called over 40 people in a drugstood conspiracy, delivered to the USA.
decline and relevance in the media
ochoa was the only suspect in this group who decided on a process, which led to his conviction and a 30-year prison sentence. The other defendants received a lot of milder punishments because most of them cooperated with the government. In public perception, Ochoa's name has moved into the background, while Mexican drug dealers are now in the spotlight in global drug trafficking.
representation in pop culture
Nevertheless, Ochoa was recently portrayed in the Netflix series "Griselda", in which he initially fights against the business-addict Griselda Blanco for control over the cocaine market in Miami and then forms an alliance with the drug dealer played by Sofia Vergara. Ochoa is also shown in the Netflix series "Narcos" as the youngest son of a wealthy Medellin family who works in cattle breeding and horse breeding and forms a sharp contrast to Escobar, which came from more modest conditions.
expectations of the future
Richard Gregory, a retired US prosecutor who was in the team who condemned Ochoa, expressed that the authorities never had all illegal drug profits of the Ochoa family. He expects the former drug boss to return to his home wealthy. "He will certainly not return as a poor man," said Gregory in a conversation with the Associated Press at the beginning of this month.
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