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The Gray Ghost, a suit-wearing super boss, heads the world's largest drug trafficking operation, but most in law enforcement don't even know he exists.
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00:09que nunca foram identificados, que nunca foram prosecuted.
00:18Todos os caros de Medellín cartel, eles sabiam sobre Pablo.
00:22Mas esse cara, ele não era ninguém. Ele realmente não era invisível.
00:32Um dos seus nicknames foi o Grey Ghost.
00:34Ele fez um bom trabalho de não giving ninguém o seu nome.
00:42Os caros eram outras pessoas.
00:45No entanto, ele era um maestro de todas as pessoas.
00:51Ele era o maior drugstoreiro do mundo que ninguém nunca ouviu.
01:03Ele era o maior drugstoreiro do mundo que nunca ouviu.
01:06Ele era o maior drugstoreiro do mundo que nunca ouviu.
01:17Ele era o maior drugstoreiro do mundo que nunca ouviu.
01:29Ele era o maior drugstoreiro do mundo.
01:32O negócio ganha, eu desculpe, Sr. Bezos, mas você não está mesmo no radar.
01:41Normalmente, quando as drogas são produzidas em Colombia,
01:44eles transitaram a Central América, ultimamente através do México,
01:49e as drogas são vendidas nos Estados Unidos.
01:51Agora o traficor tem um grande problema.
01:54É muito difícil de ganhar o dinheiro.
01:56O mais caro e mais efetivo,
01:58que isso gera um grande valor, é simplesmente enviar o dinheiro.
02:05A gente encontra um contínio,
02:07às vezes com a conhecimento do envio,
02:09às vezes sem o conhecimento.
02:10A gente não tem o conhecimento.
02:11A gente tem o dinheiro em contínio,
02:13e então enviar para a colombia.
02:16E sem um contínio, você nunca vai descobrir isso.
02:23Working out of the U.S. em St. Colombia,
02:24we get 10 or 20 tips a day from sources
02:27that have information on money laundering,
02:30narcotics trafficking, and so forth.
02:33The agents, they had been contacted by an informant in Spain,
02:38and honestly, for months,
02:40they had just blown off the informant.
02:42They get so many tips, so much information,
02:44but the informant was persistent.
02:49The information was that millions of dollars
02:51was concealed within big bags of ammonium sulfate.
02:55This is a fertilizer.
02:56Legitimate companies were transporting this fertilizer
02:59from Mexico to Buenaventura, Colombia.
03:03I was skeptical, and I was like,
03:05this is probably another one of those phony allegations.
03:09But we went to the port of Buenaventura,
03:11and sure enough...
03:14There it is.
03:17It was millions and millions of dollars in bulk cash.
03:21It was a magnificent way
03:23for the organization to smuggle bulk cash
03:25because U.S. Customs can't detect it through x-ray,
03:28and even when you probe it,
03:30it's so deep, you wouldn't be able to touch it.
03:33$40 million in cash.
03:36It was the largest bulk cash container seizure
03:39in U.S., Mexico, and Colombian history,
03:42probably in the world.
03:44So they knew they were on to something big,
03:46possibly one of the biggest invisibles ever.
03:51And that's why they came to me.
03:53I had a reputation as the go-to person for money laundering.
03:57I sat down with the two Homeland Security agents
04:00who said,
04:01we've seized over $40 million.
04:03imagine the magnitude of the organization
04:07and the volume of drugs that it's producing.
04:10But where do we go from here?
04:17I received a call from a Colombian attorney
04:20with whom I'd worked previously.
04:21He said to me,
04:23I have three clients
04:24who need to come in.
04:27They just sustained
04:28the seizure
04:29of enormous amounts of money
04:32and their lives are in danger.
04:36I said,
04:37did they just get a big hit
04:38in Reina Ventura?
04:41And his response was,
04:42how did you know?
04:44I said,
04:44well,
04:45bring them in
04:45and we'll all find out.
04:48They were sort of between
04:49a rock and a hard place.
04:51Someone was going to come after them
04:52for that lost $40 million.
04:54On the other hand,
04:56they had U.S. law enforcement
04:57breathing down their necks.
04:58They had to make a decision
05:00which created
05:01the greater risk to them.
05:03And ultimately,
05:04they ended up with
05:05what I like to call
05:07the good guys.
05:11Once they were signed up,
05:13they went back to Colombia
05:14to act as if nothing had happened.
05:17And you have to remember,
05:18they themselves
05:19were not familiar
05:20with whose money
05:21they were laundering.
05:22He was an invisible.
05:24So our instructions to them were,
05:27number one,
05:28stay calm.
05:29Number two,
05:31gather as much intelligence
05:32as you can
05:33about the group
05:34you were working with.
05:35And most important,
05:37try to get us real names.
05:50One of his nicknames
05:51was the Grey Ghost.
05:53When we first started
05:54hearing about him
05:55in 2004,
05:56I was a special agent
05:58on behalf of DEA
05:59assigned to the Caribbean,
06:01Atlantic,
06:02and the drug transportation
06:03organizations
06:04working in and about
06:05those areas.
06:09We were getting
06:10a series of fishing vessels
06:12that were loaded
06:13from 2,000
06:15to 4,000 kilos of cocaine.
06:19As the crew members
06:20were coming in
06:21from the boats,
06:22a certain name
06:23kept popping up
06:24when we would speak
06:25to them.
06:26Don Luis.
06:29For them,
06:30he was a Don
06:31meaning respect
06:32and Luis,
06:32that was his first name.
06:34So these guys
06:34referred to him
06:35as Don Luis.
06:36At the time,
06:37other names
06:38were more prominent
06:39than Columbia.
06:41Don Luis,
06:42as we knew him,
06:43wasn't getting
06:44a lot of attention.
06:45But we knew
06:46if we were catching
06:4711 different boats
06:48for the two 22 tons
06:50that we knew
06:50belonged to him,
06:53this was a pretty
06:54significant target.
06:58Our primary goal
06:59was to try
07:00to get him identified
07:01and trying to
07:02really understand
07:04his organization
07:05and the depth
07:06of his organization.
07:08My partners and I,
07:09we turned every rock
07:10we could,
07:11traveled all over
07:12Central and South America
07:13trying to track down leads.
07:14So we really
07:15were on a hunt.
07:16since 2006,
07:182007,
07:20I received
07:21some information
07:22that he was
07:23the guy behind
07:24the scenes
07:24of the Bogota
07:25soccer team
07:26who invested
07:27in the team
07:27and who was
07:28paying the bills.
07:29He owned it,
07:30but not on paper.
07:32Some of the stuff,
07:33we weren't sure
07:33what was rumor
07:34and what was,
07:34what was,
07:35what was fact.
07:36And it became,
07:37you know,
07:37like a passion of ours.
07:38Like, we were gonna
07:39get this guy identified
07:40and we were gonna
07:40get him arrested.
07:45We received information
07:46that his first
07:47last name
07:48was Caicedo.
07:51But we knew
07:52Luis Caicedo
07:53was a very popular
07:54name in Colombia.
07:55So we had to really
07:56do some digging
07:56to get his second
07:57last name.
07:59And ultimately,
08:00we got the phone call
08:02from a well-placed
08:02source that he used
08:04to be a police officer
08:05and then we had
08:06to try to figure out
08:07what agency
08:08he worked with
08:09and how many years ago.
08:09we had individuals
08:11in Colombia
08:12looking through
08:13that paperwork
08:16and that gave us
08:17the second last name.
08:20Valendia was
08:21his mother's last name
08:22and that was
08:23the hard name
08:23to come up with.
08:26Literally within hours,
08:27we were able
08:28to get a photo
08:29from a visa application
08:31with those two names
08:33together,
08:34the Caicedo Valendia.
08:36We were getting
08:37information from
08:38our intelligence sources
08:39in Colombia
08:40that he was known
08:41as Don Lucho.
08:44Chris Casio,
08:46he and his people
08:47had identified Lucho
08:48before anyone else.
08:51They got a drug indictment
08:52against Lucho.
08:55The problem was
08:56they had no idea
08:57where he was
08:58or how to capture him.
09:10they basically gave us
09:12a tip on a person
09:13named Max.
09:15Max was a high-ranking member
09:17of the narcotics traffic
09:19and organization
09:20based out of Bogota.
09:21He was not the top
09:23of the hierarchy.
09:25He took orders from
09:27the boss,
09:28the cartel Kingpin.
09:32We were working
09:33collaboratively
09:34with the Colombian
09:35National Police
09:36and trying to identify Max
09:38because we didn't
09:39have his identity.
09:43But after following him
09:44around doing tactical
09:46surveillance,
09:47we thought this was a
09:48high-level worker
09:49of the organization.
09:55This high-ranking member,
09:56he decided to take his family
09:58to the United States
09:59on vacation.
10:01We obtained his flight plan.
10:08So once he landed in Miami,
10:11we were able to greet him
10:12at the airport
10:15and introduce ourselves
10:16as federal agents
10:18and notified him
10:19that he was under arrest.
10:21I don't think he had
10:22any idea
10:22that anybody
10:23was looking for him.
10:25It was a big shock.
10:28The first thing I thought
10:29was to hear
10:32if he informed me
10:33about me.
10:46when they were arrested
10:48in the airport,
10:50and then I thought it was
10:54what I was going to say
10:55about my wife
10:57because I was arrested.
11:00What I was going to say
11:03is how I was going to say
11:11Ese mesmo dia, eu falei, olha, pertenezco a uma organização, tal, tal, sou narcotraficante,
11:21e fiz isso durante muitos anos, e já tenho uma ordem de arresto aqui.
11:30Cuidado aos filhos.
11:48Quando o Max disse o seu boss era, Luiz Caicedo, a.k. Don Lucho, nós estávamos orgulhoso.
11:56Esse cara estava operando por um tempo sem ser descobrido.
12:00Eu não quero ficar muito emocionante, porque foi um número de anos que nós estávamos procurando ele.
12:04Ele era um objetivo enorme e trabalhava por anos, sem ninguém saber nada sobre ele.
12:24Ao solicitar o co-operação de Max, ele colocou para nós a toda a empresa.
12:32O todo o cartel.
13:01Ninguém sabia de nós, se você perguntava a alguém, ou seja, você poderia me perguntar em baixo mundo se conhecia
13:10a alguém,
13:12se conhecia a um tal Don Lucho, ou se conhecia a algum cartel em Bogotá.
13:18Ninguém te dava razão de isso.
13:19É mais, em 1995 conheci a Lucho.
13:25Eu necessitava mais para dar-lhe como uma estrutura.
13:30Isso é o que ele necessitava.
13:34Quando o conheci, há pouco tempo comecei a trabalhar com ele.
13:37Eu o que recebia era salário.
13:39R$3,000 mensais ao mês.
13:45Dentro da mentalidade que tinha Don Lucho, se os trabalhadores se enriquecían,
13:51os ia ter fora de controle.
13:54Ou seja, se eles tinham salário baixo, tinha que viver aí com ele sempre.
14:00A Lucho não gostava de chamar a atenção para nada.
14:04Ou seja, a ele, a sua vida era muito anônima, super anônima.
14:09Nós andávamos em carros de baixa gama, vivíamos em lugares, todo mundo tinha que andar em traje.
14:18Nós andávamos em uma vida normal.
14:20Ou seja, nós não era fácil identificá-nos na rua como se estivéssemos fazendo algum delito ou algo.
14:29Nada de lujos, cero lujos, vestir adequadamente e nunca falar de negócio com ninguém.
14:37Esos eram os três requisitos que se haviam no organismo.
14:41É um trabalho pesado.
14:42Por o que eu digo, Don Lucho pensa 100% em trabalhar.
14:46Para ele não existen as vacações.
14:49De lunes a domingo e o trabalho eram 24 horas.
14:53Se ele não precisava das 2 da manhã, das 2 da manhã é que saía de trabalhar.
14:58Nunca se podia dizer, não, estou dormindo, ou não, estou descansando, ou estou de vacações.
15:04Esas palavras não existiam em esta organização.
15:07Então, era trabalhar, trabalhar, nós trabalhamos.
15:14Uma vez que nós nos assustávamos essa memória,
15:19nós conseguimos obter uma quantidade enorme de evidências físicas,
15:24documental, testemunial evidências.
15:30Nós descobrimos que Lucho foi parte do que se tornou a nova geração de drogas.
15:45Lucho decidiu, eu tenho um parceiro,
15:50tudo mais vai ser outsourced.
15:53Eu preciso de drogas?
15:54Eu não vou ter os dados como o Pablo.
15:57Eu vou ter os dados.
16:00Eu vou ter os dados.
16:05Eu preciso de drogas?
16:07Eu vou ter os dados.
16:07Eu vou ter os dados.
16:07Eu vou ter os dados.
16:07Eu vou ter os dados.
16:38Um dos mais prominentes foi um indivíduo chamado Julio Lozano.
16:42Julio era extremamente valioso para o seu conexão com os dados, com o produto.
16:49Ele tinha um homem chamado Claudio Silva.
16:52Claudio tinha uma grande farmácia.
16:55Claudio estava muito feliz de設itar um crematorium na sua farmácia.
16:59E quando Lucho dirigiu, os bodies iriam em Claudio's crematorium.
17:08Os três meninos foram conhecidos como os dons da organização.
17:11Há名u Don Julio, Don Claudio e Don Lucho.
17:16Lucho também partnered com alguém que estava longe de invisível.
17:21Um grande traficor chamado Loco Barrera.
17:25Loco foi parte da organização, principalmente para o valor de seu nome.
17:31A gente sabia que você não queria Loco em algum lugar perto de você, porque você iria acabar morto.
17:37Como a sua família e toda a sua família, e todos os outros que você nunca falaram.
17:42Então, Loco foi mais um afroado que foi levado em qualquer cabeça.
17:47Não se engança com Lucho, ou você vai ter que lidar com Loco.
17:51A Don Lucho não gostava de chamar a atenção.
17:55A Don Lucho não gostava de ter comunicação nem com militares, nem com policiais, nada.
18:03Mas o Loco tinha todos esses contatos.
18:09Então, que um tinha o poder econômico e o outro, digamos, que tinha o poder militar.
18:19A relação entre Don Lucho e Loco Barrera, para mim, é o protótipo.
18:26A relação visível-invisível.
18:29Todos os olhos estavam no Loco Barrera, que estava lidando com o lado operacional do negócio.
18:35Ninguém sabia que, atrás dele, pegando as cordas, fazendo as contas e o grande dinheiro,
18:41era Don Lucho.
18:43Don Lucho é um homem muito sério.
18:45E com a quantidade de dinheiro que você tem, e com a leverage sobre polícia, militares,
18:52você é capaz de influenciar muitas pessoas.
18:55Em um legal negócio, se alguém está tentando steal a sua trademark,
18:58se alguém está engajando em libel ou slander,
19:01você pode seek a redressa através do sistema legal.
19:05Com o trafico, não há redress.
19:08Se alguém steals a sua droga e o seu dinheiro, você não pode ir ao contrário.
19:11Você tem que pegar a lei de sua própria mão.
19:16Se você crossa esse caminho, você basicamente ficou morto.
19:26Lucho tinha um pedaço de segurança.
19:58O chasse de segurança, você pode ser intercédio.
19:59Você sourced drugs para ele, sua chats vão ser intercédio.
20:03E Cias oversaw essa operação.
20:07O mais importante do Cias' trabalho
20:10foi executar os execuções.
20:14Ele pediu a palavra de Lucho,
20:16esse homem me roubou.
20:18Ele pediu a palavra de alguém em a organização,
20:21esse homem morreu com a minha esposa.
20:24Qualquer a razão,
20:26Cias foi subcontratado
20:28com uma equipe de sicarios, hitmen.
20:32As a organização se tornou mais poderoso,
20:36Cias dirigia os hitmen
20:39ou os policiais, que também estavam trabalhando para Lucho,
20:43simplesmente kidnap os tigres
20:45e trazer eles ao Claudio Silva's farm.
20:50Sometimes com a violência,
20:52é parte da cultura que se eles não
20:56enforcam violações de seu código,
20:59todo mundo vai ter adiante deles.
21:01Então, eles têm que sete exemplos,
21:04sejam membros da organização,
21:06pessoas que eles importam,
21:06pessoas que eles gostam de,
21:08e quando eles chegam a esse nível,
21:10como Lucho's nível,
21:11se ele não fornece,
21:12todos vão fazer isso.
21:16A organização tinha um código
21:18que eles usam internamente
21:19para documentar pagamento,
21:23então,
21:24pode ser verde para pagamento,
21:26pode ser verde para pagamento,
21:28mas verde
21:29sempre significava a cor do sangue.
21:33Então,
21:34você está tomando.
21:35que eles não forneceram a cor do sangue.
21:54O que eles não forneceram?
21:59Esta operação foi imprecedente.
22:04Os agentes infiltraram a organização Lucho.
22:08Nós, de uma capacidade de cairnado,
22:11realmente dirigimos o cartel.
22:32Então, Max foi muito co-operante,
22:34e ele era capaz de trabalhar com o governo do governo do US.
22:40Ninguém no Don Lucho sabia que ele estava under arresto.
22:45Nós decidimos aproveitar essa situação.
22:50Nós colocamos ele em uma localização em New York
22:53e criamos uma operação de cobertura.
22:57Nós colocamos uma sala de guerra,
22:59e os agentes infiltraram Lucho's organização
23:04e a dirigiram como se fossem esse indivíduo alto.
23:10Como?
23:11Os membros alto-ranking dos seus grupos
23:13geralmente nunca se encontram em pessoa.
23:16Todo mundo compartilhou uma e-mail e a password para o e-mail.
23:21Quando eles precisavam se comunicar com os outros,
23:23eles deixavam um e-mail e deixavam ele no sistema,
23:28indetectável para o governo do governo.
23:31Os outros examinavam o e-mail em formato,
23:34porque nunca foi enviado,
23:35e recebiam suas instruções.
23:38Então, usando esse método de comunicação,
23:40ele ajudou ele a operar indetectável por tantos anos,
23:44mas também ajudou nós,
23:46uma vez que nós tínhamos as leis,
23:47se tornamos parte da sua organização.
23:52Uma vez que nós tínhamos a clave,
23:54uma vez que nós conhecemos os e-mails,
23:55nós conseguimos levar como se fossem aquela pessoa.
24:03Onde eles lutaram o detergente.
24:03Todos os que trabalharam isso
24:04nunca foram em uma posição similar à dessa,
24:08onde, em uma capacidade de boa carreira,
24:11eles estão a operar cartel.
24:14Eles estão a controlamento da rede.
24:25Então, nós nos infiltramos e começamos a inserir as ordens.
24:29Oh, você tem drogas na Venezuela?
24:32Sendem aqui.
24:32Ou você tem dinheiro na Néterlaz?
24:34Sendem aqui.
24:35Nós mandamos as ordens para os transporters, para os carregadores,
24:39e então nós vamos ver os drogas e ver o dinheiro.
24:48Essa operação foi continuamente unnerving,
24:53unnerving para todos os que estavam envolvendo.
24:57Rar uma organização de drogas traficas remotamente foi muito estressante.
25:03Nós tínhamos uma linha muito fina para a balança.
25:06Nós não queríamos ficar grátis e perder a chance de capturar ele.
25:10No outro lado, nós queríamos ter as muitas drogas e as muito dinheiro como possível.
25:15Nós estávamos literalmente fazendo negócios narcóticos e ouro-money-laundering
25:20deals all over the world.
25:22Nós fizemos isso em Ecuador, nós fizemos isso em Argentina,
25:26nós fizemos isso em Colômbia, Morocco, Spain, Rotterdam.
25:31Eu quero dizer, era imprecedente.
25:33Isso levou muita cocaína na rua em todos esses vários países.
25:38Eu acho que o total de dinheiro que foi recebeu
25:42foi algo a doce de R$175 milhões.
25:45R$175 milhões.
25:46R$175 milhões.
25:50Working with Max proactively in order to cover capacity
25:53meant dealing with him every day, 20 hours a day,
25:57working through weekends, working through holidays nonstop.
26:03So, you start to understand, in a personal way,
26:06what led him to be a worker for a major drug trafficker like Luis Caicedo.
26:13I personally think he got involved because he had no choice.
26:18Once you get in deep, you can't get out,
26:21and that's what most of these guys who are underlings of the kinkpins say.
26:26You know, if you get out of an organization,
26:27you're either going to get killed or your family's going to get killed.
26:30You really have no options but to work for them.
26:36We would go for walks.
26:38We would take him out to drink some pop, some shakes
26:40to kind of decompress from the investigation.
26:45When you're dealing with a high-level person,
26:48anything could happen.
26:50Ambushing, people trying to break him out of the undercover location where we're at.
26:55So, you're talking about me with another 10 to 15 agents,
26:59just to even take him outside for a breath.
27:03Every day was filled with tension
27:06because we never knew when Lucho would say,
27:10there's a mole, we must shut it down, we must end communication.
27:18The chatter over the wires was that Lucho was getting worried.
27:23He could not understand how an organization that had evaded seizures
27:28was getting hit one after another after another.
27:32Things were running dry.
27:36There were no more cocaine shipments to send anywhere.
27:40There were no money pickups.
27:42And some people stopped responding
27:44because everybody got scared of what was happening.
27:50Don Lucho was like, what in the hell is going on?
27:53These narcotics cartels, they factor in losing loads of dope.
27:59What they get really upset with is when their money is confiscated.
28:03Lucho had suffered very few seizures before our investigation started.
28:08We knew that with a certain number of seizures,
28:12someone was going to figure out that there was a leak.
28:17Day in and day out, is it time to shut it down?
28:20Is today the day?
28:22Ah, well, just one more load, one more seizure.
28:26Until finally, we decided,
28:28it's too hot, there's been too many seizures,
28:31we have to go in for the kill shot.
28:33We have to get Lucho.
28:51Don Lucho, please go in for the kill shot.
28:54Don Lucho, please go in for the kill shot.
28:56Don Lucho incumplió uno de sus requisitos
28:58más claros y básicos.
29:03Nunca juntarse a rumpir con los trabajadores.
29:08Él se va de...
29:10Se va de fiesta y se vuelve amigo
29:13de uno de los trabajadores de nosotros.
29:16Y tan de mala suerte que ese trabajador
29:20con el que él se volvió amigo
29:23tenía un trabajador
29:25que ya era informante de los Estados Unidos.
29:31Inmediatamente Estados Unidos se le entra en el radar
29:34le hace uno...
29:36lo que llaman aquí un indictment,
29:38una orden de arresto
29:41contra Don Lucho.
29:53Don Lucho fue capaz de obtener eso
29:55desde el gobierno de Colombia
29:56por los términos corruptos.
29:59Y así, él se ve su nombre
30:00y abstened a un país
30:03que le ofreía a safe harbor.
30:06Lucho felt some heat in Colombia
30:09so he had moved his family
30:11to Argentina.
30:13Pero no sabía precisamente
30:15where he was.
30:16So, having some of our cooperators
30:18contact him via email,
30:21we were able to triangulate
30:24some of his coordinates.
30:28So, Lucho was living in an enclave
30:31where a lot of Colombian narcos
30:33build their houses.
30:34You can always tell in Argentina,
30:37gated communities,
30:38monstrous-sized houses,
30:40lots of security,
30:41and that's where he had relocated.
30:52So, the plan to capture Don Lucho
30:54was having Max set up a meeting
30:57with Don Lucho in Argentina.
30:59He wanted to meet
31:01because he wanted to know
31:01what was going on with,
31:03you know, the organization
31:04and all the recent seizures.
31:07Guys, we got to be careful.
31:09The gossip, the chatter
31:11is that he's beginning
31:12to get suspicious.
31:13The tension was enormous.
31:15Are we really going to get him?
31:19So, when we got on that plane,
31:21I was scared, man.
31:22I was like, holy s***,
31:23like, this is happening.
31:27We're going to go forward
31:29with capturing the biggest
31:31drug trafficker in the world.
31:35There's so much corruption
31:36in different countries.
31:37You have to be really careful
31:39when you actually let people know
31:41that you have a target.
31:43you want to put handcuffs on him
31:44because if you do it too soon
31:46and they get word of that,
31:48then the guy runs
31:48and you can't find him.
31:52The meeting point was going to be
31:53around a shopping center
31:54in a highly public
31:57Argentine community.
32:05Is he going to be,
32:07sorry, Lucho,
32:08but is he going to be dumb enough
32:10to show up more or less
32:12unaccompanied at a meeting?
32:14Del Lucho.
32:16People were scared of him,
32:17not just in Colombia,
32:19but all over the world.
32:20We were all on pins and needles
32:22waiting to see how this happened
32:24and we were just hoping
32:25that everything would go okay.
32:28Our agency coordinated
32:30with the Argentine authorities.
32:33Depending on your relationship
32:35with local law enforcement,
32:37sometimes you get to go out
32:38on the operation,
32:39sometimes you don't.
32:41So the Argentines
32:43set up surveillance
32:44around the meeting point.
32:46They basically did everything
32:47in country because as diplomats
32:48overseas we have
32:49no law enforcement authority.
32:51The safe place to keep us
32:52is at the embassy
32:53so we can't get in any trouble
32:54or do anything silly
32:55or screw up their operation.
33:04All it is was a very
33:06covert operation
33:08and there was no lights
33:09and sirens.
33:11Once they saw him
33:13they went ahead
33:14and apprehended him.
33:18He knew that was up.
33:23The moment he was in custody
33:25we received word
33:26and we all shouted
33:28and we high-fived.
33:30We've got him,
33:31we've got him,
33:31he's in custody,
33:32we've got him.
33:35When that went down
33:37it was about a five o'clock,
33:38five or six o'clock
33:39on a Friday night
33:41we were standing by
33:42at the embassy
33:43and jumped in the car,
33:45drove to the arrest location.
33:48There was an individual
33:49in the back of a car
33:50in a suit
33:52and I thought
33:52that kind of
33:53meets the criteria
33:54for this guy
33:55because
33:56he wasn't just like
33:57a low-level crew member.
33:58This was,
33:59you know,
34:00this was the boss.
34:02He looked at me
34:04with a shock
34:06in his face
34:06that I'd never seen.
34:07His eyes were
34:07wide open.
34:09He didn't know
34:10what was going on
34:11but when we
34:11identified ourselves
34:12he kind of nodded
34:14and said,
34:15yeah,
34:15I basically got caught.
34:17In my ten seconds
34:19of brief conversation
34:20in Spanish with him
34:22we explained
34:23it wasn't an accident
34:24while he was handcuffed.
34:25We encouraged him
34:26that in his particular case
34:28it was in his best interest
34:29to waive extradition
34:30and if he delayed
34:31the extradition
34:32a year or two years
34:33the information
34:34that he could
34:35provide to us real time
34:36was going to be stale
34:37and it'd be in his best interest
34:39to get on a plane
34:39and get to the United States.
34:43He knew someone
34:44definitely betrayed him
34:45because their organization
34:46was so secret
34:48and so underworld.
34:57After he got caught
34:58we were listening
34:59to these calls
34:59of local Barrera
35:02making plans
35:03to send helicopters
35:04and trucks
35:05and armored vehicles
35:07trying to break
35:08Don Lucho
35:09out of jail.
35:19Loco Barrera
35:20is serious
35:21about trying
35:22to break Lucho
35:23out.
35:24That's what kind
35:25of respect
35:25Loco had for
35:27Don Lucho.
35:28So that's why
35:29we had to move fast
35:30and get Lucho
35:30out of there
35:31back into the U.S.
35:34Back in the United States
35:36Don Lucho
35:37he was looking
35:38at 20 to life.
35:40The only way
35:41in the United States
35:42for a drug trafficker
35:43to avoid spending
35:4510, 20, 30 years
35:47in jail
35:47is to cooperate.
35:49There is no
35:49other alternative.
35:51The first part
35:52of his cooperation
35:53was just
35:54can you turn over
35:55any money?
35:56Can you turn over
35:56any drugs?
35:59The Homeland Security
36:00agents
36:01wanted to seize
36:02as much money
36:03as possible.
36:04Their job
36:05was to convince Lucho
36:06to turn over
36:07the money.
36:10Most of these guys
36:11will tell you
36:11when you lock them up
36:12they don't have
36:12any money
36:13and they spent
36:14all their money
36:14or so-and-so
36:15owes them money
36:15and it was true.
36:17Lucho had a bunch
36:18of people that owed
36:18him a lot more money
36:19but we knew
36:20that he had moved
36:21significant amounts
36:22of cocaine
36:22which meant
36:23he made significant
36:24amounts of money
36:24and the conversation
36:25and the conversation
36:26that we had
36:26was you don't have
36:28to give it all up
36:28but you got to
36:29give a lot of it up.
36:31So he had
36:32a couple individuals
36:33that were in
36:34Columbia still
36:35that we were
36:36making phone calls
36:37to and ultimately
36:39we were notified
36:40that there was a car
36:42at a certain location
36:42a certain color
36:44and that in the trunk
36:45of that car
36:45was you know
36:47some of his
36:47drug proceeds.
36:51We'd roll out
36:52to these different
36:52locations
36:53with the local cops
36:54they'd run the dog
36:55on the car
36:55the dog would
36:56hit on it
36:56and then you know
36:57we would open up
36:59the trunk
36:59and sure enough
37:00there'd be a bag
37:00of money in there.
37:02Each of the drops
37:04a different car
37:05would show up
37:05at a different location
37:06never the same location
37:08and bags of money
37:09in the trunk.
37:11First amount
37:12was right around
37:1312 million dollars
37:13about a week later
37:15we collected
37:16another 16 million
37:17same way
37:18but the fourth drop
37:20in Columbia
37:20was the biggest
37:22we received information
37:23about an apartment
37:24and they had
37:26boxes and boxes
37:27of money
37:28and to the tune
37:29of close to
37:3050 million dollars
37:31inside the apartment
37:32and it was in a pretty
37:34raggedy neighborhood.
37:37102 million dollars
37:38was ultimately
37:39seized in Columbia
37:41but I explained
37:42to him that
37:43listen
37:43we appreciate
37:44what you did
37:45in Columbia
37:45that's great
37:46but that money
37:46stays in Columbia
37:47if you can get
37:4710 million to the US
37:48through another country
37:50that's going to do
37:52a little bit more
37:52for you
37:55so a short time
37:56later
37:56he arranged
37:57for a series
37:58of four to five
38:00different drops
38:00in Panama
38:01where we would
38:02fly to Panama
38:03we'd go to a location
38:04and there would be
38:05a person there
38:06and the person
38:07would turn over
38:08the suitcase
38:09to us
38:09and we would seal it
38:11up for our policies
38:12and procedures
38:12throw in our carry-on
38:13and fly home
38:14with it
38:24Lucho
38:26he pled guilty
38:27to everything
38:27that we charged him
38:28with
38:28he always seemed
38:30very respectful
38:31very sincere
38:33hey I just want
38:34to get this behind
38:35me and move on
38:35with my life
38:36you know
38:36that was really
38:37his attitude
38:38with us
38:53for someone
38:54that moved
38:54that amount
38:55of cocaine
38:55did he do
38:56enough time
38:56in jail
38:58probably not
38:59probably not
39:01should he have
39:01done a little bit
39:02more
39:02maybe
39:06everything lined
39:07up just perfectly
39:07for him
39:08from the judge
39:09the sentencing
39:09to the timing
39:10of it
39:11everything lined
39:12up for him
39:12where he got
39:13a favorable
39:13sentence
39:16Don Lucha
39:17right now
39:17is out of jail
39:18and I think
39:20that he will
39:21continue to operate
39:23the way he was
39:23before
39:25I think that
39:26he still has
39:26a lot of influence
39:27I think he still
39:29has a lot
39:30of depths
39:31that haven't been
39:31collected
39:34so I think
39:34now he's
39:35he's still
39:36a dangerous
39:36man
39:40I would like
39:40to say
39:40he's not
39:41going to get
39:41back in the
39:41business
39:42but we've
39:43had guys
39:43spend
39:44the same
39:45amount of
39:45time
39:46go back
39:46out there
39:46and start
39:48up again
39:49I hope
39:50that's not
39:50what he does
39:54his partners
39:55his partners
39:55Julio Lozano
39:56sentenced
39:56back in
39:57Colombia
39:58Claudio Silva
39:59as well
39:59paid his
40:01sentence
40:01back in
40:02Colombia
40:03for the
40:04Colombians
40:04this is a
40:05way of life
40:06they know
40:07that there's a
40:08shot that
40:09they're going
40:09to get arrested
40:10they're going
40:11to have to
40:11cooperate
40:12they'll get
40:13their sentence
40:13reduced
40:14they'll go
40:15back to
40:15Colombia
40:15and some
40:16significant
40:17percentage
40:18not having
40:19any other
40:19career paths
40:20will immediately
40:21return
40:21to trafficking
40:23or money laundering
40:33the story
40:34of Loco
40:34Barrera
40:35is perhaps
40:36an extreme
40:36case of
40:37what happens
40:38to a visible
40:40as the net
40:41began to close
40:42around him
40:43he became
40:43increasingly
40:44desperate
40:45he used a
40:47frying pan
40:47to burn
40:48his fingerprints
40:49and grow
40:51a beard
40:51hoping
40:51that that
40:52would help
40:53him
40:53remain
40:55not arrested
40:56and hidden
40:59it didn't
41:18he's
41:18got the
41:19plan
41:19complete
41:20I
41:21got my
41:22wife
41:22and my
41:23children
41:23family
41:24normal
41:25we live
41:26in a
41:27normal
41:27community
41:50Seu valor da rua foi mais de 24 bilhões de dólares de vendas de narcóticos mundial.
41:58E aí, eu acho que ele gostou de ter muito dinheiro, e ele gostou de ter muito dinheiro, e ele
42:22gostou de ter muito tempo.
42:26Quando tudo foi feito e feito,
42:27nós levamos o que, para o seu era,
42:30era o maior e invisível, Don Lucho.
42:33Nós levamos o seu entanto
42:36em termos de seus parceiros,
42:39seus direitos de direção,
42:41e nós levamos bem sobre 30
42:45dos que eu gosto de chamar de subcontracções,
42:47as pessoas que apoiaram o que ele precisava
42:50para fazer o seu negócio.
42:50Nós acolhamos o nosso objetivo,
42:53que era desmantelar.
42:55Se você me perguntar,
42:58se nosso trabalho tem algum impacto
43:01no seu negócio em si mesmo?
43:04A resposta é não.
43:07Não, pelo menos por um minuto.
43:10Com ele fora da imagem,
43:12mais jovens, ainda mais violentos
43:15traficadores estão entrou no espaço.
43:17Então, com todo o grande sucesso,
43:20tudo que nós fazemos é criar um abenço
43:22para a próxima geração.
43:24Há sempre outros invisíveis
43:26esperando nas mãos.
43:32a saúde.
43:34A desenvolvimento de São Paulo,
43:35A saúde.
43:36A saúde.
43:36A saúde.
43:37A saúde.
43:38A saúde.
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