![]() The vessel used to carry out this first effort was intercepted by members of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of FloridaĪuthorities say Robin Castro-Gomez led the brothers' first joint trafficking attempt in August 2017, "recruiting mariners to partake in the trip, as well as giving orders and providing logistical equipment to his co-conspirators," while Alvaro helped him. Alvaro Castro-Gomez has a previous conviction for trafficking narcotics on the high seas, according to the U.S. The brothers were charged for their alleged attempts to move cocaine from Tumaco in Colombia to Central America, for importation into the U.S., via three "low-profile vessels" in the Eastern Pacific Ocean between August 2017 and March 2018. Attorney's Office for Florida's middle district announced in a news release. Robin Castro-Gomez, 36, and Alvaro Castro-Gomez, 41, pleaded guilty last September to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute huge amounts of the drug, valued collectively at about $100 million, the U.S. Two brothers were sentenced to 22 years each in federal prison for allegedly conspiring to traffic more than 7,700 pounds of cocaine from Colombia to the Unites States on "low-profile" boats, authorities said. Colombian authorities find 2 bodies, 3 tons of cocaine on submarine 00:42
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