Ex-Colombian footballer arrested for third time for drug trafficking

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Former international Diego Osorio was planning to fly to Madrid from Rionegro (northwest), a city near Medellín, “with 1,849 grams of cocaine”, police said.

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Former Colombian international Diego Osorio (right) arrested after cocaine was found in his luggage at Medellin airport on May 5, 2023. (HANDOUT / COLOMBIAN NATIONAL POLICE / AFP)

Former Colombian footballer Diego Leon Osorio was arrested for the third time on April 8 in a drug trafficking case, Colombian police announced on Friday (May 5). The former defender was about to catch a flight to Madrid from Rionegro, a town near Medellin, “with 1,849 grams of cocaine”.

Authorities arrested him at the airport, and found he was carrying the drugs hidden in four pairs of sneakers.

Arrested in 2002, then in 2016

The police did not formalize his arrest until Friday, after the release to the press of a video in which Leon Osario appears handcuffed next to a police officer. The 52-year-old former footballer had already been arrested in 2002 while carrying cocaine in Miami. He had been released after posting bail, but in 2016 he was arrested again in Medellin and placed under house arrest for five years.

Diego Leon Osorio has spent his entire football career in Colombia. He notably won the championship twice (1991 and 1994) with Atlético Nacional. He was played 17 times for the selection.


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