Although the case is handled under absolute reservation, EL TEMPS exclusively established that the three captured by the narcovuelo that fell to the island of Providence, Last May 23, are already being officially processed in the United States.
(We invite you to read: The tangled businessman in case of a narcovuelo who arrived in Providencia)
This newspaper acceded to the Indictment, open to the Tampa Middle District Court (Florida), to conspire to introduce into the United States 446 pounds of cocaine pure, a behavior that can cost them several years in prison.
This is the indictment opened in a Tampa court against the narco-pilot, his assistant and the ex-policeman involved.
The pilot, Juan Camilo Cadena.
The document lists the names of the first three involved in the case, as defendants. But the process has been expanding in recent weeks in a reserved way and there is talk of other conspirators.
TIME omits their names so as not to hinder investigations advancing the DEA.
(You may be interested in: The trail of the ‘Mexican’ in the narcovuelo de Providencia)
According to the document, the first processed is Joan Carles Cadena Botero, The pilot of the plane owned by the company Interandes Helicopters.
The owners of the aviation firm – the employers Fernando Escovar and Miguel Jaramillo Arango– were declared victims within the plot.
the others
Harold Rivera Toledo, assistant detainee.
The other involved is Harold Darío Rivera Toledo, The assistant of the small plane, key piece within the investigation in Colombia.
Rivera appears in the hangar security video, along with two other men in police uniforms, carrying the N722KR (enrolled in the United States), With cocaine camouflaged in mouthguard boxes.
And the third prosecuted in the United States is until a few weeks ago the captain of the police Jorge Isaac Aguilar.
EL TEMPS revealed calls and chat messages in which Aguilar asked the officer in charge of the search to let the load pass, supposedly of mouthpieces, destined for the institution.
(On the case: The trail of the ‘Mexican’ in the narcovuelo of Providencia)
“Help me secure the boxes to get them out of the airport, I’m on the outskirts,” says one of the messages that led the prosecutor in the case to ask for the officer’s arrest. Now you are looking at a second uniformed that operates from the airport of Guaymaral and that would be involved in this one and other narcovuelos.
Police Captain Jorge Isaac Aguilar was sent to prison for the narco-plane case.
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The owners of the cake
As anticipated by this newspaper, federal agents were following him on the track in the mafia network that removes cocaine to Providence in private planes and then ‘shoots’ her in Honduras and the United States in speedboats. An informant had already delivered names and routes along which they also move shipments to Venezuela, which feed the market in Europe.
(On the subject: Soplón in Honduras betrayed narcoavioneta)
And while the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office has made progress in the investigations, in the United States they go for the owners of the shipments, which would include old mobsters and aviation entrepreneurs.
“The United States is not going through intermediaries. It wants the owners of the cargoes,” a researcher told the newspaper.
Another clues about the case are several buildings linked to the network and a pilot recruiter. The latter was already taken to the United States to transport cocaine in the United States medium aircraft.
And it is already known that the drug that drives the network comes from the south of the country and there is even a list of registrations of planes – of Colombian flag – that carry the shipments for Meta, Guaviare and Vichada.
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And although the Indictment has not been officially notified, at least one of those involved already knows that it will be requested in extradition and a negotiation is not ruled out with the DEA.
Here in Colombia everyone pleaded not guilty.
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