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Here's some quick background from Grok for those who don't want to watch a low-bandwidth video presentation.

Mark Grenon was incarcerated in Colombia due to his involvement in promoting and selling a product called "Miracle Mineral Solution" (MMS), which he and his sons marketed through their Genesis II Church of Health and Healing as a cure for various illnesses, including COVID-19. This led to legal action from U.S. authorities, culminating in his arrest in Colombia.
Grenon, who styled himself as the "archbishop" of this Florida-based organization, claimed MMS—essentially chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleaching agent—could treat diseases ranging from cancer to autism to COVID-19. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had long warned that MMS was dangerous, equating its ingestion to drinking bleach, with potential side effects like severe vomiting, diarrhea, and life-threatening low blood pressure. In April 2020, a Miami federal judge ordered the Grenons to stop selling MMS, but they defied the order, continuing their operations.
By July 2020, Mark Grenon and his three sons—Jonathan, Jordan, and Joseph—were indicted by a Miami grand jury on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to violate the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and criminal contempt. At that point, Mark and Joseph were in Colombia, reportedly after fleeing there following a raid on their Bradenton, Florida, headquarters. On August 11, 2020, Colombian authorities, in coordination with the U.S. Department of Justice and Colombia’s Prosecutor’s Office, arrested Mark and Joseph in Santa Marta. The arrests were tied to their continued distribution of MMS to the U.S., Colombia, and parts of Africa, with Colombian officials linking the substance to seven American deaths (though this claim lacks detailed public substantiation).
Grenon was held in La Picota prison in Bogotá awaiting extradition to the U.S., which occurred in July 2022. His incarceration in Colombia stemmed from this international effort to halt his promotion of a product deemed fraudulent and hazardous by U.S. regulators.
Posts on X and various reports suggest he maintained contact with supporters from prison, even distributing MMS to inmates, but the core reason for his arrest was the illegal marketing and sale of this unapproved, dangerous substance. In 2023, after extradition, he and his sons were convicted in Miami, with Mark sentenced to five years in prison.