Carlos Lehder, Medellín Cartel Boss and Pablo Escobar Partner, released in Colombia 3 days after arrest

Colombian authorities are on Monday after the judge executed the ex-Carlos Medellin Cartel Boss Carlos Lehder, after the referee ruled that the sentence of drug trafficking in Colombia against the 75-year old man.

Lehder, one of the original “cocaine cowboys” and Pablo Escobar’s Crimity Partner, was arrested on Friday evening soon after landing in Bogota Airport on the flight from Germany, with Immigration officials saying He still wanted in the southern American country for drug trafficking and weapons smuggling charges.

Lehder became the first Colombian drug dealers extradited in the United States after he was arrested during the party on his ranch.

The former trademark is extradited to the US in 1987. years, where he served more than 30 years in prison. 2020. Year, Lehder was released after he was performing two-thirds of his American punishment. He was deported to GermanyWhere is the citizen too.

Lehder did not return to Colombia from his extradition to the United States. His lawyer, Sondra Macollins, said he was trying to visit relatives when he arrived on Friday.

“Recover from cancer and has high blood pressure problems,” Macollins said Blu radio columbia. “We’re talking about someone who spent years in dark cells.”

The Colombian authorities sentenced the drug trafficker in 1995. year, while serving a separate sentence in the American prison. The chief of the cartel was sentenced to 24 years in prison in Colombia, which means that his sentence expired in 2019. years, according to Colombian law.

The son of the German immigrant who arrived in Colombia in the 1920s, Lehder began a criminal career in the 1970s when he lived with relatives in New York.

He used his contacts and his knowledge of the English language to open the cocaine market for the Medella cartel and became the key ally of his boss, Escobar. He is Shown in Netflix series “Narcos” as a wild, ruthless criminal founded by a cocaine transit hub on the private island in the Bahamas, named Norman’s Cay, which became a key stopping stop in cocaine flights.

He owned a luxurious village hotel known as the aleman’s crew, which is in cage lions on their grounds and a great statue of Lehder’s favorite musician, John Lennon.

In the United States, Lehder was initially sentenced to life in prison, but he managed to reduce the penalty by providing American investigators with information used to process the Panama Dictator Manuel Norieg.

As the CBS news reported in 2015. year, the Prosecution of Lehder and Noriega helped intelligence gathered Carlos ToroFormer high-ranked Member of the cartel turned into a covert deer operative that took over many false identities.

Lehder’s release Monday comes just a few months after the other key Cartel Cartel Medella cocaine has ejected from American prison. Records from the American Prison Bureau Show Fabio Ochoa Vásquez was released In December after the end of 25 years of 30-year-old prison sentence.

Ochoa, 67, and his older brothers raised wealth when cocaine flooded us at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, to the point of 1987. were involved in a billionaire for Forbes magazine. Living in Miami, Ochoa ran the Kokaina Cockain Center Distribution Center once a checker Escobar.