The former Colombian soccer player Diego Leon Osorio he was arrested for the third time on April 8 in a drug trafficking case, Colombian police announced on Friday. The defender, who won several titles including National Athletic“planned a flight to Madrid” from Rionegro (northwest), a city near Medellín, “with 1,849 grams of cocaine,” the Police said in a press release.
At the airport, authorities arrested him and discovered the drugs hidden in four pairs of sneakers. Police did not formally arrest him until Friday, after a video was released to the press in which Osario appeared to be handcuffed next to a police officer.
The 52-year-old former soccer player was already arrested in 2002 when he was transporting cocaine to Miami. He was released after posting bail, but in 2016 he was arrested again in Medellín and placed under house arrest for five years.
Different precedents
This is not the first time that a soccer player from the country that produces the most cocaine in the world has fallen into the justice network for drug trafficking. In 2021, former Colombian soccer star Anthony de Ávila was arrested for drug trafficking in the Italian city of Naples. Last year, John Viafara, champion of the Libertadores de Caldas, was extradited to the United States for participating in a drug shipment to that country. Luis Alfonso “Bendito” Fajardo and Wilson Pérez are also facing similar legal problems.
Source: La Verdad
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