Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Orejuela (born August 15, 1943)Los Jinetes de la Cocaína (Spanish). Chapter 3 is a convicted Colombian drug lord. He was one of the leaders of the Cali Cartel. He is the younger brother of Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela. 

On March 11, 2005, Rodriguez Orejuela was extradited to the United States. On September 26, 2006, Rodríguez Orejuela was sentenced to 30 years in prison, after pleading guilty to charges of conspiring to import cocaine to the U.S. He is in a Pennsylvania prison.

Arrest
On August 6, 1995, Rodriguez Orejuela was arrested when the Colombian National Police broke down the door of his apartment (Hacienda Buenos Aires) in the exclusive Normandia neighborhood in Cali, Colombia, as he was about to slip into a secret closet called a caleta. Jorge Salcedo, his main bodyguard, betrayed Rodriguez.

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Category:1943 births
Category:Living people
Category:Colombian criminals
Category:Drug dealers