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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Carlos Lehder: Pablo Escobar's crime partner freed from US jail, deported to Germany

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat source
His Sentence Was LIFE PLUS 135 YEARS
Pablo Escobar’s former crime partner and 'cocaine cowboy' released from prison in us, deported to Germany..


Carlos Lehder: Pablo Escobar's crime partner freed from US jail. The man who set up the notorious Medellín drug cartel alongside Pablo Escobar has arrived in Germany after his release from a US prison. ... Captured in Colombia in 1987, he was extradited to the US and sentenced to life plus 135 years in jail

Pablo Escobar’s crime partner and one of Colombia’s pioneering “cocaine cowboys” has been released after a long prison sentence in the U.S. and been deported to Germany, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Carlos Lehder arrived on a flight for his new home in Berlin on Tuesday after being released from a U.S. prison in Florida, where he had been held as part of the government’s witness protection program, attorney Oscar Arroyave told The Associated Press.

Lehder, 70, was one of the leaders with Escobar of the Medellin cartel that dominated the global cocaine trade in the 1980s. At the same time an admirer of both John Lennon and Adolf Hitler, Lehder is portrayed in the Netflix series “Narcos” as a wild, womanizing criminal who set up a transit point for cocaine-laden aircraft on a private island, Norman’s Cay, a few hundred miles off the coast of Florida in the Bahamas.

His extradition to the U.S. in 1987 kicked off a period of intense U.S. targeting of Colombian narcos, who at the nadir of the bloody cartel turf wars managed to bribe and threaten their way out of prosecution in the South American country.

Escobar, his partner turned rival, never saw a U.S. jail cell, dying in a shootout with police in Medellin in 1993. But thousands of Colombian drug traffickers have since gone to U.S. prisons, many of them serving far less time than Lehder.

Arroyave, who didn’t represent Lehder at the time of his arrest, said federal sentencing guidelines make it very costly for defendants who fight charges and lose in a jury trial.

“Nobody accused of drug trafficking goes to trial in the U.S. anymore,” said Arroyave, who said he plans to travel soon to Berlin to share a celebratory beer with his client after such a long ordeal. “Had he pled guilty, he would’ve been home 15 years ago. In today’s world, there are drug traffickers far bigger that Carlos Lehder who pay five to six years.”

Lehder was originally sentenced to 135 years plus life, but after agreeing to testify against former Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Noriega, he had his sentence reduced to 55 years.

Lehder acquired German citizenship through his father, an immigrant to Colombia. Arroyave said Lehder has no interest in returning to Colombia and German authorities provided assistance in allowing him to resettle in his adopted homeland.

“He was always crazy but he was also very smart,” said Richard Gregorie, a former U.S attorney in Miami who indicted Noriega and several other Colombian drug traffickers close to Lehder. “He’s old but I wonder much craziness he still has left.”

12 comments:

  1. I'm happy for Joe. I know he did a lot of bad. I get that 100% but he did a lot of time for the bad he did. My God is all about forgiveness, I work hard to be more God like daily. No one pushed dope on any of us, we here in the states DEMANDED it. People like Joe stepped up and answered our calls for dope, dope and more dope. I also understand that people are being killed in large numbers because of the dope business. The sad fact is it's not so much the dope that is doing the killing, it's because it'a all unregulated. No way to use the court system to collect a dope debt, so you kill to sent the message, you don't get free dope and then live to enjoy it. Make Coke cola, Dr Pepper illegal and I can guarandamntee people will kill over buying/selling it. So to Joe, take care, spend your few remaining years staying out of trouble and dreaming about flying that beautiful Rockwell Turbo Commander 690b. The one you had back on Norman Cay. I'm sure you still remember it, one hell of a aircraft for sure.

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  2. YES !
    come to germany Mr. drug lord.
    we take all kind of people.
    thieves, rapists, murderers, religious extremism and
    from now on drug lords from colombia.
    YES ! JACKPOT for us.

    Head => Wall.
    Thanks.

    greetz from a kraut.

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    1. I think he only went to Germany cuz he was part german bro

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    2. Don't ever forget your disgusting genocidal history and the death camps Nazi filth built....Germans...hypocrite Nazis who forget their own blood thirsty and monstrous history of killing....but its still celebrated with Neo Nazis today. Now scum gringos and Russians have joined.

      Lehder the pendejo is going back to his Nazi homeland in Nazi land...how fitting. I hope he dies a miserable death in Nazi Land

      Nazism is alive and well. Germans...a people who worshipped and still do a little man who probably had a Jew mummy and only one testicle.



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  3. Crime partner? Escobar ratted on him. He was up from the jungle staying at one of escobars fincas when caught

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  4. ...and all of the crap I went through for driving drunk.

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  5. Sending a Nazi sympathizer to Germany...

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  6. Crazy Carlos who loves John Lennon and adolf hitler half German half colombian

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