Drug Lord Vanishes After Conviction in the US!
Drug Lord Vanishes After Conviction… in the US!
His name is Juan Carlos Ramirez-Abadia (nickname: Lollipop). He’s a figure in the recent scandal over the President of Costa Rica’s use of a drug plane belonging to Gabriel Morales Fallon, who was identified as one of his former lieutenants.
Juan Carlos Abadia’s extradition to the US from Brazil in 2008 received major media coverage.The DEA was calling him the biggest drug cartel boss since Pablo Escobar. They say he led the world’s biggest drug cartel, exporting more than 500 tons of cocaine—worth in excess of $10 billion—just to the United States alone.
His name was in the news again several months later, when he asked (citing claustrophobia) to be placed in a bigger detention cell while awaiting trial in New York.
But when he pled guilty in March of 2010 to felony counts of drug trafficking and racketeering, not one newspaper in America carried the story. His conviction went completely unreported. The DEA didn’t didn’t even issue a press release.
It was as if, when Pablo Escobar was gunned down in Colombia, the story didn’t make the news.
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