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'Freeze, everybody with their hands up': Moment Colombian military busts three men transporting 922 kilos of cocaine worth $44 MILLION in a narco-sub they tried to sink
2021-05-01
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Yeferson Torres, Pablo Torres and Flavio Mina were arrested after being accused of transporting 922 kilos of cocaine in a man-made semi-submersible April 24

  • Colombia's armed forces and coast guard busted the narco-sub in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Tumaco

  • The suspects allegedly opened the sub's valves in an attempt to sink the vessel and evade capture

  • The shipment was split into 52 large bags labeled 'A3' and were destined for Mexico by a drug trafficking network linked to followers of Jairo Martínez, deceased leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)

  • The three men, who identified themselves as fishermen, were charged with trafficking, manufacturing and carrying narcotics
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