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Six plead guilty to Sinaloa Cartel cocaine submarine smuggling plot - US Justice Dept

Washington, Sep 13 (UNI/Sputnik) Six Colombian nationals have entered guilty pleas to charges of conspiring to use “narco-submarines” to smuggle over 19,000 kilograms, or nearly 42,000 pounds of cocaine to the Sinaloa Cartel in northern Mexico, the US Justice Department announced on Monday.
"According to the plea agreements ... the defendants were part of a transnational criminal organization that dispatched self-propelled semi-submersible (SPSS) vessels, sometimes known as narco-submarines, from Colombia into the Pacific Ocean, destined for Sinaloa Cartel members in Oaxaca, Mexico," the Justice Department said in a press release,
Fernando Pineda-Jimenez, 40, Luis Ernesto Perez-Quevedo, 45, Adrian Luna-Munoz, 45, Yesid Eduardo Torres-Solis, 41, Hector Ruiz-Angulo, 54, each pleaded guilty to one count conspiracy to import five kilograms or more of cocaine into the United States, the release said.
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