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Luis Alfredo Colón Osorio

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Hispanic
Era:1980s
Inmate Number:#03172-069
State:Puerto Rico
Support
Puerto Rican Independence Communism Anti-Imperialism
Luis Alfredo Colón Osorio

Biography

Puerto Rican independence activist Luis Alfredo Colón Osorio was detained in the 1985 Wells Fargo prosecution, rearrested in Puerto Rico on March 17, 1992 for failure to appear after bail, and arrested again on June 28, 2000 in a separate firearms and explosives case. The original Wells Fargo indictments were dismissed on January 19, 1993. Official BOP register 03172-069 records actual release from federal custody on February 3, 2012, the endpoint of his most recent known federal imprisonment rather than the earlier1985 detention.

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The Fall 1992 directory lists Luis Colón Osorio under individual federal register 03172-069, with correspondence sent to FCI Otisville, PO Box 1000, Unit 5, Otisville, New York. The fuller existing name is Luis Alfredo Colón Osorio, whose Puerto Rican Wells Fargo case matches the directory’s group context. This supplies a missing historical prisoner number and dated mailing reference; it is not a new admission or release date.

Breakthrough, Fall 1992, PDF 50.

The federal appellate chronology records an individual 1985 arrest in the Wells Fargo case and seventeen months of actual pretrial detention. It describes a release order in December 1986, rather than an independently verified physical discharge day. The known seventeen-month pretrial subtotal does not establish a complete lifetime custody total. The original robbery-case indictments were dismissed on January 19, 1993. A later arrest in Puerto Rico occurred on March 17, 1992 according to both the First Circuit and the district court’s detailed FBI surveillance chronology. Breakthrough’s summer 1992 report prints March 16; the judicial records support March 17. After transfer to Connecticut, he was convicted of two failure-to-appear counts on December 9, 1992 and sentenced on January 29, 1993. A new weapons complaint was unsealed that day, so the sentence intended to permit immediate release is not evidence of an actual discharge. Related weapons and drug proceedings arose from that same 1992 arrest. The directory lists his correspondence at FCI Otisville under 03172-069. The First Circuit separately identifies his June 28, 2000 arrest, August 23, 2001 indictment and actual pretrial imprisonment by April 2002 in the later firearm and explosive-device case. The official BOP response for the same register records actual federal release on February 3, 2012. That BOP entry does not itself name the underlying case or establish uninterrupted custody since 2000. Exact original prison-admission dates and complete custody totals for the later episodes remain unknown.

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Cases

Charges: Bank-robbery conspiracy (18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 2113); foreign transportation of stolen money (18 U.S.C. § 2314); RICO predicates (U.S. v. Gerena — 1983 Wells Fargo robbery, West Hartford, CT)
Arrested: 1985
Incarcerated: 1985
Sentence: The original Wells Fargo indictments against Colón Osorio were dismissed on January 19, 1993. The First Circuit describes seventeen months of earlier pretrial detention and a release order in December 1986. The actual physical discharge date is not established by that order.
Convicted: No
FCI Otisville
Charges: Failure to appear following release on bail (two counts, 18 U.S.C. §3146(a))
Arrested: Mar 17, 1992
Sentenced: Jan 29, 1993
Sentence: Convicted of the two failure-to-appear counts on December 9, 1992 and sentenced to 318 days on January 29, 1993. That is a nominal sentence, not a verified complete time-served total. A new Puerto Rico weapons complaint was unsealed that day; actual physical release is not established. The summer 1992 directory individually lists him at FCI Otisville under 03172-069.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: New York
Charges: Felon in possession of a firearm (18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1)); possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number (§922(k)); carrying an explosive during those felonies (§844(h)(2))
Arrested: Jun 28, 2000
Released: Feb 3, 2012
Sentence: Concurrent 24-month sentences on the two firearm counts and a consecutive 120-month sentence on the explosive-device count. The First Circuit affirmed the convictions on March 3, 2004 and individually describes imprisonment awaiting trial in April 2002. Exact prison admission and sentencing days remain unestablished; no actual duration is calculated from the nominal terms.
Indicted: August 23, 2001
Convicted: Yes