Two brothers were sentenced to 22 years each in federal prison for allegedly conspiring to traffic more than 7,700 pounds of cocaine from Colombia to the Unites States on “low-profile” boats, authorities said.
Robin Castro-Gomez, 36, and Alvaro Castro-Gomez, 41, pleaded guilty last September to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute huge amounts of the drug, valued collectively at about $100 million, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Florida’s middle district announced in a news release. The brothers were charged for their alleged attempts to move cocaine from Tumaco in Colombia to Central America, for importation into the U.S., via three “low-profile vessels” in the Eastern Pacific Ocean between August 2017 and March 2018. Alvaro Castro-Gomez has a previous conviction for trafficking narcotics on the high seas, according to the U.S. attorney.
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