The son of a former Colombian paramilitary drug-cartel kingpin was sentenced Friday in San Diego federal court to four years and three months in prison for an international cocaine trafficking conspiracy.

Sebastian Meneses Toro, 26, was extradited from Colombia to San Diego in June 2024, two years after federal prosecutors in San Diego secured a three-count indictment against him. Colombian national police reportedly arrested Meneses in August 2022, two months after he was indicted, at an international airport in the Colombian capitol of Bogotá.

Meneses pleaded guilty to one count of the indictment in March.

He is the son of Daniel “Don Mario” Rendon Herrera, who is serving a 35-year sentence in a federal prison in Texas. Federal prosecutors in New York said that before Rendon’s arres

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