Dairo Antonio Úsuga David

Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, also known as Otoniel, is a Colombian convicted drug lord and former top leader of the drug trafficking group the Gulf Clan, Úsuaga is also an ex-paramilitary having been a member of the Popular Liberation Army (EPL) and the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). After being sought by Colombian authorities for a decade, he was captured in October 2021, the operation required the mobilization of more than 500 special forces personnel, 150 intelligence units, 50 satellite intelligence experts, 22 helicopters, and the intervention of intelligence agencies from the United States and the United Kingdom. He was extradited to the United States in May 2022. At the time of his capture, 132 warrants for his arrest had been issued, he was also responsible for the deaths of more than 200 members of the Colombian Public Force. Then-president Iván Duque stated that Úsuga’s capture “is only comparable to the fall of Pablo Escobar in the 1990s”. Defense minister Diego Molano described him as "one of the greatest symbols of evil in Colombia." In August 2023 he pled guilty in New York to charges related to his time as Gulf Clan leader and was ordered to pay US$216 million in forfeitures and is currently serving a 45-year sentence. He also faces coordinated charges in Florida.