Coba Castro

Lorenzo Enrique "Coba" Castro Marqués (b. ca. 1984), typically known as Coba Castro or mononymously as Coba, is the Chef (leader) of the British Columbia Cartel, the most powerful drug trafficking organisation and organised crime group in Canada. While "Coba" is almost certainly an alias, having never been apprehended by law enforcement, Castro's true identity remains unknown to law enforcement and the public, and therefore it is not known whether the rest of his name is also an alias, either in full or in part. There are at least 18,000 individuals throughout the world with the legal name of Lorenzo Enrique Castro Marqués.

Castro succeeded Lucas Costa Melo as Chef following Costa Melo's arrest in Oceanside, California in mid-September 2011 during a meeting with representatives of the Mexican Mafia and the Sinaloa Cartel, three of whom were also arrested of each group, for a total of 7 arrests. Costa Melo was subsequently incarcerated by US federal authorities, but was ultimately extradited back to Canada and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Kensington Institution, a federal maximum-security prison, by the Supreme Court of Canada, without the possibility of parole for 20 years. Costs Melo's wife of sixteen years, Mia, was also charged, in her case with money laundering and falsifying evidence, for which she was convicted and received 10 years, with no possibility of parole for 5 years. Both started their sentences at Kensington in the summer of 2013.