For years, Jorge Enrique Figueroa Monroy, a Colombian man known by the alias “Toto,” has been serving a 21-year prison sentence for drug trafficking at a penitentiary in Guaduas, a town in the central Colombian department of Cundinamarca. He reportedly believed that a far more serious case against him — the killing of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent more than 20 years ago inside an upscale Bogotá nightclub — had faded from American prosecutors’ radar.
That assumption was wrong. Last Friday, investigators from the CTI, the forensic and criminal investigation branch of Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalía), arrived at the prison to formally notify Figueroa Monroy of a U.S. extradition request. The request connects him not only to the DEA agent’s assassination but also to a sprawling transnational drug-trafficking network with alleged links to Israeli organized crime figures.
According to Colombian newspaper El Tiempo, which obtained access to the American indictment, U.S. prosecutors are relying on physical evidence — including a briefcase tied to the case — along with wiretapped communications gathered during the investigation to build their case against him.
The story, reported by El Tiempo’s investigative unit, sheds light on a cold case that spans two decades and reaches into the shadowy intersection of Colombian cocaine networks and international organized crime. To explore the full details of the indictment and the events surrounding the DEA agent’s death, read the original report at El Tiempo.
Source: Cocaína y mafia israelí: el dosier de 'Toto', el hombre que asesinó a un agente de la DEA en Bogotá (eltiempo.com).
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