Carlos Lehder, a former leader of the Medellín Cartel and close ally of Pablo Escobar, was released in Colombia after a local judge ruled that his sentences are no longer enforceable. The 75-year-old ...

US authorities deported Carlos Lehder, one of the co-founders of the Medellin Cartel, to Germany where he arrived on Tuesday. The 70-year-old Lehder, who has both a Colombian and a German nationality, ...

A Bogota court ordered the release of founding Medellin Cartel member Carlos Lehder, claiming his arrest on Friday had been illegal. Lehder was arrested after he returned to Colombia 38 years after ...

A drugs king who spent decades in a federal lock-up for flooding the US with cocaine is revealing that he was turned in by his closest ally: Pablo Escobar. Carlos Lehder went from New York street ...

Federal prosecutors are using information in the drug-smuggling trial of Carlos Lehder Rivas to build a case against Bahamian Prime Minister Lynden Pindling, it was reported Friday. Several witnesses ...

He sits in a U.S. prison and his drug empire is in ruins, but the capture of Carlos Enrique Lehder has rekindled Colombia`s peculiar fascination with its most infamous cocaine kingpin. A new book ...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombian authorities released former Medellin Cartel boss Carlos Lehder on Monday after a judge ruled that a drug trafficking sentence issued in Colombia against the ...

Pablo Escobar's former right-hand man has been deported from a US prison to Germany. The Colombian-German national revolutionized cocaine smuggling — and his life is more unbelievable than the most ...

Bogota: Carlos Lehder, former drug trafficker and one of the founding leaders of the Medellin Cartel, was arrested on Friday by Colombian authorities upon his arrival from Germany on a warrant in the ...