By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The criminal judge of the Golfito* court, accepted the
request of the Prosecutor's Office, and imposed
six months of pre-trial jail against three men,
two Colombian men, one surnamed Estupiñán García
and the other surnamed Angulo Mosquera, and a
Costa Rican man surnamed Caballero Espinoza, as
suspects in the crime of international drug
trafficking in a narco-submarine.
The three suspects were arrested Sunday and linked
to transporting more than 2.3 tons of cocaine
inside the narco-submarine.
A narco-submarine, also called drug sub and
bigfoot submarine, is a type of custom-made
ocean-going self-propelled submersible vessel
built by drug traffickers to smuggle drugs. They
are used by Colombian drug cartel members to
export cocaine from Colombia to Mexico, which is
often transported overland to the United States.
According to the police report, the
narco-submarine had run aground on Llorona Beach* and the three
crew members had fled to the jungle area inside.
"Upon arrival, the agents of the Drug Control
Police, checked the submarine, founding a total of
2,377 packets of cocaine of one kilo each," said
the police in its report.
After the submarine was found, the park rangers
reported finding three men walking through the
brush, "when the officers asked the stop, they
started firing, wounding an officer," said police
in its report.
Two of the suspects were arrested by the rangers
and the third suspect was arrested hours later.
In addition, the police seized the drugs, several
global positioning devices, known as GPS, as well
as some devices for navigation.
The police report that the wounded park ranger was
taken to the Corcovado clinic and that he was
reported to be in stable condition.
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