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Juan Castro was arrested in Colombia and extradited to the U.S. for trial. This is one of his boats during a Coast Guard interdiction.

Earlier this month, Juan Carlos Castro Vasquez of Colombia was sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. federal prison. “Juanca,” as he liked to be called, was a boatbuilder for a drug cartel, having overseen the construction of a…

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