U.S. v. SUAREZ

No. 14-2378-cr.

791 F.3d 363 (2015)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Yesid Rios SUAREZ, aka Sealed Defendant 2, aka El Enano, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 30, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Meringolo , Meringolo Law, New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant Yesid Rios Suarez.

Adam Fee , Assistant United States Attorney ( Brian A. Jacobs , Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Preet Bharara , United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y., for Appellee.

Judge KEARSE concurs in a separate opinion.


BACKGROUND

Since the early 1990s, Yesid Rios Suarez operated a large-scale drug trafficking organization out of Colombia and Venezuela. In September 2010, while Suarez was in Venezuela, he was convicted in absentia in Colombia of drug manufacturing and trafficking. Approximately one year later...

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