Pablo Escobar's aide returns to Colombia after 20 years in US prison
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Fabio Ochoa, one of the founders of the Medellín drug cartel, has been deported to Colombia after serving a 25-year sentence in the United States. The former drug boss has reunited with his family and plans to live in Medellín.
Fabio Ochoa, one of Colombia's top drug trafficking bosses was deported from the United States back to the South American country.
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One of the founders of the Medellín drug cartel has returned to Colombia after more than 20 years in prison in the United States for drug trafficking.
Fabio Ochoa was one of the founders of the drug cartel and was a senior aide to the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. The Medellín cartel dominated the cocaine trade and waged a brutal campaign against the Colombian state until Escobar's assassination in 1993. Ochoa was captured in 1999 as part of the so-called Operation Millennium, which the police conducted against several drug trafficking leaders and their associates. In 2001, Ochoa was taken to the United States, along with about 30 other alleged traffickers.
After serving 25 of his 30 years in prison in the United States, Fabio Ochoa arrived in Colombia on Monday, on a flight from Miami, accompanied by other deportees: he will reportedly be free - without pending charges in Colombia.
The former cartel boss smiled as he hugged his daughter, whom he hadn't seen in seven years, and said he was going to Medellín to live with his family.
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