A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison on Thursday for conspiring with the Colombian cartel.
Jose Irizarry and his wife Nathalia Gomez-Irizarry were arrested in February 2020 in San Juan, Puerto Rico after they were accused of laundering money for the Colombian cartel.
Authorities accused the couple of being involved in a seven-year scheme of diverting more than $9 million from undercover DEA money laundering investigations into banks.
