"Sebastian Meneses Toro, 26, was extradited from Colombia to San Diego in June 2024, two years after federal prosecutors in San Diego secured a three-count indictment against him. Colombian national police reportedly arrested Meneses in August 2022, two months after he was indicted, at an international airport in the Colombian capitol of Bogota. Meneses pleaded guilty to one count of the indictment in March."
"He admitted in his plea agreement that beginning in at least 2019, he conspired to traffic cocaine totaling more than 450 kilograms or nearly 1,000 pounds from Colombia to Mexico and Costa Rica, with the purpose of bringing it into the U.S. Specifically, Meneses admitted that he distributed more than 440 pounds of cocaine in March 2019 and nearly 380 pounds in November 2019."
"He is the son of Daniel Don Mario Rendon Herrera, who is serving a 35-year sentence in a federal prison in Texas. Federal prosecutors in New York said that before Rendon's arrest in 2009, he was the leader of the Clan del Golfo, a violent transnational drug-trafficking organization that evolved from a paramilitary group. Rendon pleaded guilty to a charge related to leading that group and also admitted that he conspired to provide material support to its paramilitary wing,"
Sebastian Meneses Toro was extradited from Colombia to San Diego in June 2024 following a 2022 indictment and an August 2022 arrest. He pleaded guilty in March and received a 51-month prison sentence. Meneses admitted that beginning in at least 2019 he conspired to traffic more than 450 kilograms of cocaine from Colombia with intent to bring it into the United States, including shipments of over 440 pounds in March 2019 and nearly 380 pounds in November 2019. His father, Daniel Rendon Herrera, led the Clan del Golfo, confessed to leadership and material support for its paramilitary wing, and is serving a 35-year federal sentence.
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