Over coffee, the agents told Fainberg that they knew about his adventures in the former Soviet Union, including smuggling ...

The cocaine trade is far bigger and more geographically diverse than at any point in history as Albanian traffickers expand the market in Europe for the drug.

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Think White House Down meets James Bond ... as you tune into the rise and fall of the infamous drug empire led by Pablo Escobar, leader of the Medellín Cartel. The Spanish-American crime drama ...

These would be sizable shipments (their first load was 65 kilos of pure white powder). Remembered Falcon ... became part of a ...

Fabio Ochoa Vasquez, a Medellin Cartel co-founder and former lieutenant to notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar, was deported to ...

Fabio Ochoa Vásquez, 67, a former associate of Pablo Escobar, was freed Tuesday after serving 25 years of a 30-year prison sentence, records from the US Bureau of Prisons show. Ochoa and his ...

Ochoa was one of the founding members of the notorious cartel and had been a senior lieutenant to infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar. The Medellin cartel dominated the cocaine trade and waged a ...

Living in Miami, Ochoa ran a distribution center for the cocaine cartel once headed by Pablo Escobar. Although somewhat faded from memory as the center of the drug trade shifted from Colombia to ...

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