Colombian drug lord Dairo Antonio Usuga David, alias ‘Otoniel’appeared this Tuesday before the judge instructing his case for drug trafficking in a New York court, to complain, through his lawyer, that he cannot speak to his family or receive correspondence.
In a procedural appearance in the presence of Otoniel, his lawyer Alexei Schacht complained to Judge Dora Irizarry that last month your client was unable to make the monthly call to a family member or close friend to which he is authorized. He also does not receive traditional mail, not even documents “necessary for the case,” he said.
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But it was during this hearing that RCN news was able to meet with the drug trafficker’s defense, a brief communication that ‘Otoniel’ would be sending the Clan del Golfo in Colombia to stop the murders of police officers in the country.
That letter, known by Alejandro Rincón, says that “a call is made to the general staff of the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC) cease all activities against the Colombian public force, No more armed strikes because the civilian population is being harmed. A call is made to the incoming national government to seek a peace agreement that all Colombians yearn for”.
And it is that since his extradition, in Colombia the Gulf Clan has murdered twenty policemen in a show of force, in the face of an eventual negotiation with the next government of Gustavo Petro, who takes office this Sunday, August 7.
The next hearing for ‘Otoniel’ is scheduled for October 18 and it is hoped that a trial date can be set then of the former capo, whom american justice will try for “continued criminal enterprise” and “conspiring to manufacture and distribute cocaine”, since the third charge, use of weapons for drug trafficking, was dismissed because it is not included in the terms of the Colombian’s extradition.
Also known as ‘Mao’, ‘Gallo’ or ‘Mauricio Gallo’, if found guilty he could be sentenced to life in prison. His sister, Nini Johana Usuga, aka ‘The Black’was extradited on July 1 to Florida to also answer for drug trafficking.
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Brooklyn federal court prosecutor Breon Peace said of him when he was extradited in early May that he is one of “the world’s most dangerous and most wanted drug lords.” the future president had proposed “legal negotiations” so that the ‘armies’ of drug trafficking hand over their weapons in exchange for criminal benefits.
