The Second Specialized Circuit Court in Florencia (Caquetá), after approving the plea bargain between the defense and the prosecutor in the case sentenced Jesús María Ortíz Scarpeta who transported 600 kilograms of cocaine in a boat called Arco Iris.
Ortíz Scarpeta was arrested in flagrant during an interdiction proceeding conducted by Batallion (Batallón Fluvial de Infantería de Marina Tres Esquinas) in Caquetá river with the support of the Antinarcotic Judicial Police in Huila.
The authorities established in this operative that the convicted person transported two (2) caches. The first one with 354 packages of cocaine and the second one with 120.