Source: United States Department of Justice
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, and Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Terrance C. Cole, announced today the unsealing of a Complaint and Indictment charging Gilbert Bell Fernandez, a/k/a “Macho Coca,” with conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. BELL FERNANDEZ was extradited from Costa Rica to the United States on the charges contained in the Indictment on August 13, 2026.