MIAMI — On Saturday afternoon, Leroy Ortega, known as “El Enano,” Spanish for “The Dwarf,” was at FDC Miami, a federal administrative detention center in downtown, according to inmate records.
Ortega, 43, was awaiting sentencing after investigators and prosecutors identified him as being part of a crew of clumsy thieves who traveled from Colombia to South Florida for jewelry heists.
Federal prosecutors announced on Friday that Ortega, 43, pleaded guilty to Hobbs Act robbery conspiracy and two counts of Hobbs Act robbery on Feb. 12 in Miami…