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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Yusra Farzan

Colombian drug lord described as most violent since Pablo Escobar is jailed for 45 years in New York

Colombian Presidential Press Office

One of the world’s most dangerous drug traffickers — accused of being second only to Pablo Escobar, in his capacity for violence – has been sentenced to 45 years in prison at Brooklyn federal court in New York as Colombian government representatives watched from the gallery.

Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, known as Otoniel, was jailed on Tuesday for charges of conspiracy to ship cocaine into the US by land and sea.

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