Fabio Ochoa Vásquez, known for his role in the Medellin cartel and featured in Netflix's 'Narcos', is released from US prison after 25 years and is to be deported to Colombia.
One of Colombia 's legendary drug lord s featured in the hit Netflix show Narcos has been released from prison in the US and is set to be deported back to Colombia . Fabio Ochoa Vásquez, a former associate of Pablo Escobar , was freed Tuesday after serving 25 years of a 30-year sentence at a federal prison in Arizona.
Ochoa and his brothers amassed a fortune during the cocaine boom of the late 1970s and early 1980s, making them so wealthy that they were listed as billionaires in Forbes Magazine in 1987. Based in Miami, Ochoa ran a major distribution center for the Medellin cartel. Despite his relative obscurity in recent years, Ochoa was portrayed accurately in the Netflix series 'Narcos'. He was first indicted in the US for his alleged involvement in the 1986 murder of Drug Enforcement Administration informant Barry Seal
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