Notorious drug lord Fabio Ochoa lands in Colombia after release

Fabio Ochoa Vasquez completed his prison sentence in the US and returned home a free man.

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Fabio Ochoa Vasquez, now 67 years old, was deported by the US government and landed in Bogota on Monday a free man.

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 violent campaign against the Colombian state before Escobar was killed in 1993.

On his arrival in Bogota, immigration officials ran Ochoa's fingerprints through their database, the country's immigration agency said.

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