Colombian Drug Lord gets whacked with 25 year prison sentence

Ericson Vargas Cardona when he was captured in Colombia back in 2012 

America is serious with the war on drugs as the Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska sentenced ERICSON VARGAS CARDONA, a/k/a “Sebas,” to 25 years in Federal Prison. 

What did this person due to merit such a long sentence? He was the leader of a drug cartel out of Colombia that exported thousands of kilograms of cocaine to the United States and around the world.

The organization also had an arsenal of dangerous weapons that included "69 bars of C4 explosive, over 190 electrical detonators, more than 2,900 manual detonators, one rocket-propelled grenade launcher, one M-60 machine gun, nine submachine guns, over 50 hand grenades, 28 rifles, nine silencers, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. " See full story herehttp://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/leader-colombian-drug-trafficking-organization-sentenced-25-years-prison. This gang is from the remnants of the Medellin cartel. See story here...http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/08/13185616-notorious-colombian-druglord-known-as-sebastian-arrested-headed-to-us-for-trial?lite

When I was in FCI Fort dix, doing time for a white collar crime, I met a Colombian who was sitting with a 27 year sentence based on money laundering for drugs. When I was in MCC, I met Oded Orbach, who received a 25 year prison sentence. He thought he would get like 4 years. Instead, he took it trial and the Judge hammered him. He has a release date of 2032. He will come out when he is 73 years old. To read my story and what he can expect in Federal Prison, go here...http://www.amazon.com/PRISON-expect-Federal-Bureau-Prisons-ebook/dp/B011GTWLOG