Lehder was furious over the interruption the resulting shots rang out above the pulsing salsa music. The hapless victim had happened to knock on Ledher’s door while the trafficker was enjoying the company of a prostitute and a pile of cocaine. Lehder’s his last night of freedom came in 1987, when the trafficking mastermind, on a fleeting impulse, shot dead one of Escobar’s own hitmen during a raging party at a sprawling jungle hacienda in Rio Negro, 18 miles outside Medellin. And Jung would be first on the witness stand against Lehrer, telling jurors how they met in a Danbury prison as teens. Lehder did indeed try to cut Jung out of the lucrative business on Norman’s Cay. In real life, as teenagers, Lehder and Jung had shared a Danbury, Conn., federal jail cell for a time, forging their fractious longtime partnership. “Maybe I did betray you a little bit,” the Lehder character, “Diego,” cackles to Johnny Depp’s character, George Jung, in one scene from the movie.
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Lehder’s private army called him “Commander Rambo” to his face.īut they called him “Crazy Charlie” behind his back, in wary tribute to the volatile charisma captured on the Netflix series “Narcos” and by the actor Jordi Molla in the 2001 movie “Blow.” Johnny Depp and Jordi Molla in 2001’s “Blow.” Alamy Stock Photo The statue depicted the Beatle holding a guitar and wearing nothing but a Nazi helmet. He staffed his Bahamian estate on the island of Norman’s Cay with German bodyguards and Doberman pinschers.Īnd in Colombia, he reportedly commissioned a bronze statue of his favorite rock star, John Lennon, for his home district of Armenia. The Jews, he wrote, were not killed by the Nazis during World War II, but rather “died only working in fields and factories.” In Colombia, he owned a local newspaper and filled it with bizarre beliefs, including that Coca-Cola was “the only good thing about imperialism” and that Hitler was history’s “greatest warrior.” Bettmann Archiveīut the Colombia-born Lehder was as erratic as he was ruthless - a coke-addled Medellin cartel billionaire and self-proclaimed “Nazi” with a fascination for Adolf Hitler and a hair-trigger temper. Carlos Enrique Lehder Rivas, a former Colombian politician accused of heading a ring responsible for smuggling 74% of the cocaine used in the U.S. 6, 1987, New York Post story detailing Lehder’s extradition, at age 37, via an armed helicopter to Florida. “He has said if he was caught, he would kill a federal judge a week until he is freed,” Merkle was quoted warning in a Feb.
Lehder was also linked to a wave of violence against Colombian judges, police and journalists - fueling a fear of reprisal assassinations that spread to the U.S. He saw cocaine as the wave of the future in the Unites States.”
“He was to cocaine transportation what Henry Ford was to automobiles,” the US Attorney in Tampa who prosecuted Lehder, Robert Merkle, would tell jurors in his opening statement. The handsome ladies’ man and cold-blooded killer was responsible for four out of every five bags of cocaine that reached the US, prosecutors said at the time. Carlos Lehder Sipa USA via APīy the time he was captured in 1987, Lehder had revolutionized the previously inefficient, drug-mule method of smuggling and risen to the top of Escobar’s Medellin cartel. Lehder - who has dual German-Colombian citizenship and got his start as a teenager selling pot by the hundreds of pounds in New York City - is now 70, and after serving 33 years in federal custody, is reportedly in poor health.īut in his heyday, he flew Colombian cocaine into the US by the ton from a Bahamian island he owned just 200 miles off the Florida coast, deploying a sneaky fleet of low-flying small planes and bribing local pols to look the other way.Īnd as a backstop, Lehder joined forces with no less than corrupt dictator Manuel Noriega to funnel still more cocaine and drug money through Panama. Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippos legally 'people': US judgeĭruglord Pablo Escobar’s top smuggler - a wild and wily cocaine trafficker named Carlos “Crazy Charlie” Lehder - has been quietly released from prison in Florida and deported to witness protection in Germany, his lawyer announced this week. The farmer who faked his own death to work for Pablo Escobar - and the CIA Inside Pablo Escobar's Mexican hideout-turned-hotel for A-listers Pablo Escobar's invasive, sexed-up hippos are becoming a problem in Colombia
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