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Inmate Name Register Number Photo Status Details José Figueroa Agosto: 35318-069 [a]: Released in March 2020. Leader of the largest drug trafficking organization in the Caribbean; apprehended in 2010 after ten years as Puerto Rico's most wanted fugitive and indicted for drug trafficking conspiracy and money laundering; known as the "Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean."
Puerto Rico's murder rate dropped somewhat from the 1990s into the 2000s, yet violent crime remained significantly higher not just at a regional but also on an international scale. In the mid-2000s, the territory's troubles ranked it sixth worldwide in murders per capita. [2] In 2006, a total of 736 individuals were murdered in Puerto Rico. [3]
In March 2012, Puerto Rico contracted with Corrections Corporation of America to send as many as 480 inmates to CCA's Cimarron Correctional Facility near Cushing, Oklahoma. [14] The three-year contract was brought to a premature close in June 2013 after unit-wide fights and "disruptive events", with the inmates sent home.
During this era, a person named Rafy Dones surfaced as one of the first, alleged major drug traffickers operating in Puerto Rico; [7] he was sentenced to a jail term on 30 September 1977. [8] A number of drug cartels have used Puerto Rico as a transfer point for trafficking cocaine to the mainland United States. [6]
The Guerrero Correctional Institution (Institución Correccional Guerrero) is a prison for men located in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, owned and operated by the Puerto Rico Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. With a stated capacity of 944 inmates, it's among the three largest prisons in the territory.
Ultimately, no child porn was found on the couple’s devices, according to the complaint, which says their old phone number — which the couple abandoned when they moved from Puerto Rico to ...
Puerto Rican people convicted of murder (15 P) Pages in category "Puerto Rican prisoners and detainees" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Jose Figueroa Agosto (born "José David Figueroa Agosto"; June 28, 1964), also known as "Junior Capsula" and "the Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean", is a Puerto Rican former drug trafficker. [2] As the head of a major drug trafficking organization that controlled 90% [ citation needed ] of cocaine in Puerto Rico, Figueroa Agosto was considered to ...