Tuesday, July 20, 2010
It took 10 years, as well as officers from the U.S. Marshals, FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration
and Puerto Rico, but José Figueroa Agosto is finally behind bars once again.
Alias “Junior” and known as the Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean, Agosto has been hunted by federal agents since 1999, when he escaped from a Puerto Rican prison while serving a 209-year sentence for a drug-related murder.
American officials wanted Agosto back in prison because he has been shipping Columbian drugs through Puerto Rico to the U.S. He is also wanted in the Dominican Republic on kidnapping, money laundering, drug trafficking and murder charges.
He was sighted while driving San Juan, Puerto Rico. He tried to run away, as he had successfully done late September in the Dominican Republic, but this time he was caught.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
Feds Nab Alleged Drug Lord After 10-Year Hunt (by Danica Coto, Associated Press)
Wanted by U.S. Marshals (U.S. Department of Justice) (pdf)
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