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Fabio Ochoa

Fabio Ochoa Vasquez (2 May 1957-) was the youngest of the Ochoa Brothers and one of the leaders of the Medellin Cartel of Colombia.

Biography[]

Fabio Ochoa was born on 2 May 1957 in Medellin, Colombia, the son of Fabio Ochoa Restrepo and the younger brother of Jorge Luis Ochoa and Juan David Ochoa. He lived in Miami, Florida in the United States during the 1970s, and on 19 February 1986 he murdered former Medellin Cartel pilot Barry Seal, who had turned states against the cartel. From 1997 to 1999, Ochoa smuggled around 30 tons of cocaine powder into the United States every month, and he was arrested in Mexico in 1999. In September 2001, he was extradited to the USA, and in 2003 he was sentenced to thirty years in prison.

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