He came into the Puerto Rican public eye during the late 1980s and early 1990s, as many violent events took place in the Bayamón area.
According to United States law records, Solano Moreta controlled drug trafficking at the Virgilio Dávila residential area since 1992.
Solano Moreta was declared a fugitive in 1995 and on June 7 of the same year was surprised and arrested by law enforcement, while living in a friend's apartment.
What ensued was a legal battle, however, because Solano Moreta alleged, among other things, that an agreement outside the bounds of his plea bargain had made him convinced to plead guilty of the charge, and also, that his legal counsel did not properly challenge some tapes of him allegedly talking to other people, which were used as evidence.
On July 1, 2005, he made the news pages in Puerto Rico again, when he asked judge Salvador Casellas for his sentence of 45 years to be either suspended or modified so he could leave jail at an earlier time.