Otto Roberto Herrera García, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Guatemalan drug trafficker
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Place of Birth: Guatemala
About Otto Roberto Herrera García
- Otto Roberto Herrera García is a Guatemalan national and career criminal, best known for turning Guatemala into a corridor for U.S.-bound cocaine.After being captured in 2004 and receiving a prison sentence, he escaped in May 2005 from his jail in southern Mexico City while awaiting extradition to the United States.
- U.S.
- officials had called him one of the most-wanted drug traffickers in the world and offered a $2m (£1m) reward for information leading to his capture.
- The jail's warden, his deputy and 10 others were arrested for allegedly accepting bribes to facilitate his freedom.
- An arrest warrant was quickly put out by Interpol.
- Herrera García was arrested two years later in Bogota, Colombia.The U.S.
- Department of State reported that Otto Roberto Herrera García was the leader of a drug trafficking organization responsible for bringing more than 18 metric tons of cocaine from Colombia, through Central America and Mexico, into the United States since 1998.
- In 2001, alone, his organization moved approximately 12 metric tons of cocaine, and may have the ability to smuggle as much as 2 tons of cocaine into the United States each month.
- Herrera García's trafficking organization is very violent – known to have murdered suspected informants, including one who sustained 18 gunshot wounds.
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