Jair Estupinan-Montano, International Narcotics Trafficking, New York 2013

Brooklyn, NY – In a shocking turn of events, Jair Estupinan-Montano was arraigned today at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, on charges related to international narcotics trafficking.

According to court filings, prior to his arrest, Estupinan-Montano was the leader of a narcotics trafficking organization responsible for transporting shipments of cocaine from Colombia to locations in Central America and Mexico for ultimate delivery to the United States.

Estupinan-Montano allegedly worked closely with the violent ‘Los Rastrojos’ drug trafficking organization, a paramilitary organization that employed hundreds of individuals and controlled drug trafficking along the Pacific coast of Colombia.

A detention memo filed today by the government details that, between 2010 and 2012, the United States Coast Guard seized two ships and a semi-submersible vessel that had been sent from Colombia by Estupinan-Montano. In total, those vessels contained over 7,200 kilograms of cocaine when they originally left South America.

Estupinan-Montano was arrested in Panama on October 14, 2013, on a provisional arrest warrant issued from the Eastern District of New York.

Defendant: Jair Estupinan-Montano

Age: 31

COLOMBIA

E.D.N.Y. Docket No. 12-CR-793 (SLT)

Charges: International narcotics trafficking

City and state: Brooklyn, NY

Exact date: October 14, 2013

Sentence or outcome: To appear in court

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