Colombian Criminal Group Manufactured Submarines and Smuggled Cocaine for the Sinaloa Cartel
By narcomappingmx 9/13/2021 07:30:00 PM
Photo from a separate Coast Guard submarine bust in 2019.
"Narcomappingmx" for Borderland Beat
A press release from the United States Department of Justice on September 13, 2021 has announced the successful prosecution of a criminal organization dedicated to manufacturing submarines and transporting large quantities of narcotics from Colombia into Mexico.
The release reports that six Colombian nationals, members of the Fernando Pineda-Jimenez Transnational Criminal Organization, pled guilty in a US court to drug smuggling charges.
The organization, headed by Fernando Pineda-Jimenez, built fiberglass ‘narco submarines’ which were loaded with cocaine in Colombia and destined for the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. There, they were delivered to members of the Sinaloa Cartel, a major drug trafficking organization based in Mexico.
Between 2015 and 2017, United States authorities captured three narco submarines in international waters laden with a combined 19,000 kilograms of cocaine. The vessels departed from Colombia and were en route to Mexico. Another submarine linked to Rodrigo Pineda-Torres, one of those who pled guilty, was seized in Colombia before it was loaded with narcotics.
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