Montoya's lawyer said his client hoped his life story would send a message that drug trafficking destroyed everything in its wake. In court documents, Montoya's defence team traced his progression from a teenager with dreams of becoming a Catholic priest to the man at the helm of a drug-trafficking ring believed to have exported $10 billion worth of cocaine to the U.S. Montoya points to his father's death when he was 14 years old as the catalyst which set him on the wrong path.