Global Courant 2023-05-07 19:24:27
Three Colombian nationals have been charged with drugging two US Army soldiers and stealing their money and cell phones.
Jeffersson Arango, Kenneth Uribe and Pedro Silva face federal charges in Miami after a joint investigation by the FBI and the Colombian National Police determined they were the perpetrators of the March 2020 incident, according to a report by Military.com.
Authorities say the two soldiers went to a posh bar in Bogota one night to watch a soccer game and dance with local women, but the night ended when one soldier was found stumbling down the street and another passed out in his apartment. Both soldiers were missing their wallets and cell phones and had little memory of the night before, blood tests showed they had been drugged.
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The FBI conducted a joint investigation with the Colombian National Police. (iStock)
Surveillance video from the bar showed the three Colombian men drugging the soldiers’ drinks and then leading them out of the bar to a waiting car around 2 a.m. Later, surveillance videos at a bank, ATM, and stores show Arango allegedly using the soldiers’ debit and credit cards.
Colombian police began intercepting phone calls between the three men after they were identified, with authorities claiming that the men discussed robbing people after drugging them in bars and expressing anger that the looming COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their plan would stop.
According to the FBI, Arango admitted to federal authorities that he and the two men drugged the soldiers before taking them to a local hotel. From there, he was able to get a debit card’s PIN by convincing the soldier that he had to pay for something and that a cell phone was a payment block, leading the soldier to type his PIN into the phone that Arango later used to withdraw money.
Three Colombian nationals have been charged with drugging two US Army soldiers and stealing their money and cell phones. (US Army)
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After the group allegedly robbed the soldiers, they left them in the street and it is unclear how one of the Americans managed to get back into his apartment.
Arango was extradited to the US and made his first court appearance in Miami on Friday. It is unclear whether Uribe or Silva were extradited.
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