Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Óscar Malherbe de León (born 10 January 1964) is an imprisoned drug lord and former high-ranking leader of the Gulf Cartel (Spanish: Cártel del Golfo), a Mexican drug trafficking organization. He was the main intermediary of the Gulf Cartel in Colombia, responsible for shipping large sums of cocaine from the Cali Cartel in the 1990s.Before becoming a drug trafficker, Malherbe worked as a shoeshiner and car washer. He then turned to the auto theft industry and was recruited in 1976 by Casimiro Espinoza Campos (alias El Cacho), a deceased leader of a cell within the Gulf Cartel. His cunningness and ability to kill without remorse made him a notorious figure in the Gulf Cartel in the 1980s. By age 22, the Mexican authorities had charged Malherbe with at least 10 homicides. In 1984, however, his boss was killed by the then-leader of the Gulf Cartel, Juan García Ábrego, who later appointed him as one of his top lieutenants and moneymen. Under García Ábrego, Malherbe coordinated cocaine shipments from Colombia via aircraft into Tamaulipas before they were smuggled by land to the United States.García Ábrego was arrested in January 1996 and Malherbe became his successor. However, his leadership was short-lived; about a year later on February 1997 in Mexico City, he was apprehended at a shopping center and imprisoned at Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1, where he now serves his sentence.. }
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- Óscar_Malherbe_de_León abstract "Óscar Malherbe de León (born 10 January 1964) is an imprisoned drug lord and former high-ranking leader of the Gulf Cartel (Spanish: Cártel del Golfo), a Mexican drug trafficking organization. He was the main intermediary of the Gulf Cartel in Colombia, responsible for shipping large sums of cocaine from the Cali Cartel in the 1990s.Before becoming a drug trafficker, Malherbe worked as a shoeshiner and car washer. He then turned to the auto theft industry and was recruited in 1976 by Casimiro Espinoza Campos (alias El Cacho), a deceased leader of a cell within the Gulf Cartel. His cunningness and ability to kill without remorse made him a notorious figure in the Gulf Cartel in the 1980s. By age 22, the Mexican authorities had charged Malherbe with at least 10 homicides. In 1984, however, his boss was killed by the then-leader of the Gulf Cartel, Juan García Ábrego, who later appointed him as one of his top lieutenants and moneymen. Under García Ábrego, Malherbe coordinated cocaine shipments from Colombia via aircraft into Tamaulipas before they were smuggled by land to the United States.García Ábrego was arrested in January 1996 and Malherbe became his successor. However, his leadership was short-lived; about a year later on February 1997 in Mexico City, he was apprehended at a shopping center and imprisoned at Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1, where he now serves his sentence.".