Benjamín Arroyave Jaramillo, who was arrested at Eldorado International Airport in Bogotá was brought before a supervisory judge (control de garantías) after he was found by police authorities from the airport in possession of 36 kilos of cocaine packed in his suitcase.

The Colombian citizen who attempted to travel to Mexico was intercepted when he was carrying two suitcases containing 36 rectangular packages wrapped in plastic which after the technical tests yielded a positive result for cocaine.