Coba Castro

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

Castro succeeded Lucas Costa Melo as Capo following Costa Melo's arrest in September 2011 in Oceanside, California during a meeting with representatives of the Mexican Mafia and the Sinaloa Cartel, most of whom were also arrested. Costa Melo was subsequently incarcerated by US federal authorities, but was ultimately extradited back to Canada and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Kingston Institution, a federal maximum-security prison, by the Supreme Court of Canada, without the possibility of parole for 20 years. Costa Melo started his sentence in 2013.