March 20 (UPI) -- A U.S. district court has sentenced former Bolivian anti-drug chief Maximiliano Dávila to 25 years in prison for conspiring to import large quantities of cocaine into the United States.
Dávila, 54, was convicted of coordinating cocaine shipments and using heavy weapons to protect drug trafficking operations while serving in senior law enforcement roles in Bolivia under former President Evo Morales.
The sentence, imposed Thursday by U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote in a Manhattan court, concludes a legal process that began with his arrest near Bolivia's border with Argentina in 2022 and his extradition in December 2024, Bolivian newspaper La Razón reported.
Dávila served as head of Bolivia's Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking, the country's main anti-narcotics agency, until November 2019. His tenure placed him among the most influential figures in Bolivia's efforts to combat drug trafficking.
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