‘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
- 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
- The three men, who identified themselves as fishermen, were charged with trafficking, manufacturing and carrying narcotics
This is the moment Colombian security forces arrested three men after they attempted to sink a narco-sub transporting almost $44 million in cocaine in the Pacific Ocean.
Footage of the massive drug bust shows the moment the suspects, who identified themselves as fishermen, stood on top of the vessel.
The man-made vessel stood afloat after the men had opened the narco-sub’s valves to let the water in in an attempt to evade capture.
Yeferson Torres, Pablo Torres and Flavio Mina were busted for transporting 922 kilos of cocaine in a man-made narco-sub April 24 in the Pacific Ocean off the Colombian city of Tumaco
Yeferson Torres, Pablo Torres and Flavio Mina stand on top of the vessel moments after they opened the valves in an attempt to sink the narco-sub with 922 kilos of cocaine bound for Mexico
The Attorney General’s Office of Colombia said the cocaine was bound for Mexico by a drug trafficking network led by guerrilla followers of Jairo Martínez, the deceased former leader Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
‘Everybody freeze with the hands up. Everybody with the hands up,’ an officer could be heard shouting in the background after identifying the investigating personnel as coast guard and armed forces members.
A total of 922 kilos of cocaine were split into 52 packs and removed from the vessel during the April 24 incident, according to a statement from the Attorney General’s Office of Colombia.
Each of the packages, stamped ‘A3’, was bound for Mexico by a drug trafficking network linked to followers of Jairo Martínez, the deceased former leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
A total of 922 kilos of cocaine split into 52 bags were removed from the narco-sub
Authorities guard the 922 kilos of cocaine
A narco-sub used to transport 922 kilos of cocaine is lifted to a coast guard cutter after Colombian security forces intercepted it April 24 in Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of Tumaco
A coast guard cutter was able to anchor the sub to prevent it from going underwater before it was taken to a nearby port for a full inspection.
Yeferson Torres, Pablo Torres and Flavio Mina were charged with trafficking, manufacturing and carrying narcotics.
None of the suspects claimed responsibility for the cocaine shipment, which was destined for Mexico.
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