The Colombian Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, Otoniel, considered one of the most dangerous and wanted bosses in the world, was sentenced this Tuesday in New York to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking.
Judge Dora Irizarry, of the Eastern District Court of New York, imposed the sentence that the Prosecutor’s Office had requested, arguing that this is “undoubtedly one of the most serious cases in terms of drug trafficking activity” that the Court has instructed and rejected. the apologies requested by the convicted person, who pleaded in favor of an end to the armed conflict and a negotiated peace. “I doubt if they hadn’t stopped him, he would have stopped what he was doing,” the magistrate said.
Otoniel was one of the two most wanted capos in Colombia – the other is alias Gentil Duarte, from the FARC-Ep. He was arrested in October 2021 by members of the Colombian army in the Nudo del Paramillo, between the Yoki and Azul hills. A wild, wild mountain range, so impenetrable and broken that the members of the Special Forces themselves considered it hell.
Otoniel was the all-powerful and bloodthirsty boss of the Clan del Golfo (CDG), one of the most powerful drug cartels in the world, along with that of Sinaloa, of the Mexican Joaquín ‘Chapo’ Guzmán.
Otoniel, handcuffed by his hands and feet and wearing a bulletproof vest, was handed over in May 2022 by the Colombian Police to United States and Interpol agents, since he was wanted in North America to be tried for drug trafficking.
On January 25, Otoniel pleaded guilty to charges of continuing criminal enterprise, conspiring to import drugs, and maritime drug trafficking, avoiding a lengthy and costly trial.
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