Acting United States Attorney Karin Hoppmann announced the unsealing of a 2019 indictment charging Piero Antonio Lubo-Barros, a/k/a “Nostradamus,” 41, Colombia, South America, with conspiracy to distribute large amounts of cocaine knowing and intending it to be imported into the United States.
If convicted on all counts, Piero Antonio Lubo-Barros faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison.
According to court documents, beginning in approximately September of 2017, and continuing through 2019, Lubo-Barros organized a transnational criminal conspiracy that transported cocaine from Colombia to the United States, including Texas, California, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami, Florida.
In April 2018, an indictment was returned in the Middle District of Florida charging Piero Antonio Lubo-Barros, and his co-conspirator, Gerardo Gomez-Lubo, with conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
In January 2021, Lubo-Barros, who was living under an assumed identity, was arrested in Costa Rica.
Gerardo Gomez-Lubo was extradited from Panama to the United States in March 2021.
An indictment is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed one or more violations of federal criminal law, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless, and until, proven guilty.
This case was investigated by the Panama Express Strike Force, a standing Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Strike Force comprised of agents and analysts from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and the U.S. Southern Command’s Joint Interagency Task Force South.
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