Carlos Lehder, Medllín Cartel Boss and Pablo Escobar, Freed in Colombia after 3 days of arrest

The Colombian authorities, Carlos Leader, launched former Middled Cartel President on Monday after a judge died that a drug trafficking sentence in Colombia against the 75 -year -old has ended.

Lider, one of the original “cocaine cocaine” Pablo Escobar The crime partner, was arrested on Friday night, shortly after landing at Bogota Airport on a flight from Germany, Immigration officials say It was still required in the country of South America for drug smuggling and arms smuggling.

Lehder became the first Colombian drug dealer to be handed over to the United States after being arrested during a party on his farm.

The former drug trader was delivered to the United States in 1987, where he served more than 30 years in prison. In 2020, Lehder was released after he spent two -thirds of his American penalty. He was She was deported to GermanyWhere he is also a citizen.

Lider has not returned to Colombia since he was delivered to the United States. His lawyer, Sondra McCallins, said he was trying to visit relatives when he arrived on Friday.

“He is recovering from cancer and suffering from high blood pressure,” McColins told Radio Blue in Colombia. “We are talking about someone who spent years in dark cells.”

The Colombian authorities were convicted of drug trafficking in 1995, while he was serving a separate sentence in an American prison. Cartile coach was sentenced to 24 years in prison in Colombia, which means that his sentence ended in 2019, according to the Colombian law.

The son of a German immigrant arrived in Colombia in the twenties of the twentieth century, Lider began his criminal career in the 1970s when he lived with relatives in New York City.

He used his communications and knowledge in English to open the cocaine market for the Medellin and became a major ally of its president, Escobar. he It was filmed in the Netflix series “Narcos” as a harsh criminal, set up a cocaine crossing center on a private island in the Bahamas, named Norman’s Cay, which has become a decisive stop point for cocaine trips.

In Colombia, he had a luxurious rural hotel known as Posada Alemana, who had reduced blacks at home and a large statue of the favorite Lehder musicians, John Lennon.

In the United States, Leader was initially sentenced to life imprisonment, but he managed to reduce his sentence by providing investigators in the United States with information used to prosecute the Panish dictator Manuel Norgo.

As CBS News mentioned in 2015, the Lehder and Noriega trial was assisted by the intelligence that was collected Carlos ToroA former high -level member of the cartel has turned out that secret surgeries that took over many wrong identities.

Lehder released on Monday after a few months of the other main operator of the Medellin Cocaine Cartel from an American prison. Records from the American Prison Office Fabio Ochoa Vásquez has been launched In December, after the completion of 25 years of 30 -year prison sentence.

Ochoa, 67, and his older brothers, gathered when cocaine began to flood the United States in the late 1970s and early eighties, according to the American authorities, to the point that in 1987, they were included in the Forbes Magazine list of billionaires. Live in Miami, Ochoa has managed a center for cocaine, which was once headed by Escobar.