Colombia’s ‘Most Feared’ Drug Lord ‘Otoniel’ Captured After Moving 73 Metric Tons of Coke Over a Decade

Drug lord Dairo Antonio Usuga, known as “Otoniel,” has been captured by Colombia’s military in what President Ivan Duque is calling the “the biggest blow to drug trafficking” in his nation since Pablo Escobar died. 

Reuters reports that 50-year-old Usuga is accused of sexually assaulting children, killing police officers, recruiting minors, and shipping cocaine to the U.S. The numbers come out to roughly 73 metric tons of cocaine between 2003 and 2014, according to Miami and Brooklyn indictments seen by the Washington Post.

Otoniel was captured on Oct. 23, during what’s been called “Operation Osiris” in Uraba. The Post reports he was living as a fugitive and sleeping in a different place every night, and Reuters says he told authorities “you beat me” upon capture.