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Colombian drug lord Salomon Carmacho Mora was responsible for shipping large quantities of cocaine through Venezuelan shipping ports to the United States, federal prosecutors said. (STR/AFP | Getty Images file photo)

NEWARK -- A Colombian drug cartel leader once known as "Papa Grande" was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for his role in an international cocaine distribution ring.

Salomon Camacho Mora in an undated photo. (Courtesy U.S. State Department)

According to U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman, Salomon Camacho Mora, 71, had been a wanted man in the United States since 2002.

Mora's drug organization bought "multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine," in Colombia and moved it through Venezuelan shipping ports to other drug trafficking groups in the United States, including Puerto Rico, prosecutors said.

He was indicted in New Jersey federal court in 2002 and was named a high priority target by the U.S. Justice Department.

Mora was arrested in 2010 in Valencia, Venezuela, which expelled him, and he later pleaded guilty on Oct. 15, 2014 before U.S. District Judge William H. Wells to one count of narcotics trafficking.

Walls, who sentenced Camacho, also ordered him to forfeit $1.6 million and eight properties in Colombia, including a motel, penthouse apartment, farms totaling more than 10,000 acres and beachfront property, according to court records. He also will be subject to five years of supervision after imprisonment.

An accomplice who helped deliver drugs to places in New Jersey, Hector Fabio Garcia, was arrested in Colombia, extradited and pleaded guilty to drug charges in 2010, court records show.

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