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3 de Agusto, 2017
El empresario aeronáutico José Miguel Patín fue condenado a seis años y seis meses de prisión por tráfico de droga y lavado de dinero. El juicio al empresario fue celebrado el 25 de Julio del 2017 en UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. 16-20955-CR-WILLIAMS.
Patín,” propietario de la compañía aérea Servicio Aéreo Profesional (SAP) fue apresado el pasado 6 de diciembre del 2016 en el Condado de Broward County por agente anti narcótico luego de haber hecho una venta de dos kilos drogas a un informante”, según autoridades de la DEA.
aviones incautado al empresario aeronautico.
El informante además realizo una compra controlada de dos kilos de cocaína el 16 de noviembre, 2016, la investigación al propietario de SAP comenzó en el 2014 vigilando los hangares ubicado en el Aeropuerto de Ford Lauderdale Executive Airport y el condominio del acusado.
En la investigación se usaron cámara de seguridad, llamada de teléfono, compra de cocaína controlada y grabaciones consensuada entre las autoridades y el informante.
La autoridades de la DEA, dijeron que la fuente primaria de investigación fue el informante el cual expreso que le había comprado cocaína al acusado por valor de millones de dólares la cual eran transportado escondida en aeronaves propiedad del acusado.
The CS claimed that the Defendant had supplied the CS with hundreds of kilograms of cocaine over a period of years, and the CS had paid the Defendant millions of dollars in drug proceeds. The CS also admitted to assisting the Defendant in laundering the drug proceeds via wire transfers to Defendant’s air charter business bank accounts in Miami and the Dominican Republic. Those bank accounts belonged to Servicios de Aviacion General, SAP, which is Defendant’s air charter business in Fort Lauderdale and the Dominican Republic.
a second attempted controlled purchase on December 6, 2016, where an additional four kilograms of cocaine were seized. The government also executed search warrants on Defendant’s condominium and the hangar at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport where Defendant’s charter air business was located. The basis for these search warrants was an investigation that started in 2014. That investigation gathered evidence from cooperating defendants, confidential sources, court authorized Title III wire and electronic communication interceptions, physical surveillance, electronic surveillance, search warrants, controlled purchases of cocaine, and consensually recorded conversations. The primary target of that investigation was an individual, who is now a confidential source, “CS,” who distributed kilogram quantities of cocaine that were obtained from the Defendant. In June 2015, the CS agreed to proactively cooperate with the DEA in an effort to earn substantial assistance on a future federal indictment. The CS’s information was corroborated by prior law enforcement investigation, controlled calls, consensually recorded meetings with the Defendant, and the controlled receipt of the two kilograms of cocaine on November 16, 2016. After the CS began cooperating in June 2015, the CS stated that the Defendant supplied the CS with multi-kilogram shipments of cocaine that the Defendant would smuggle into the United States secreted in charter airplanes owned by Defendant’s air charter businesses. The CS Case 1:16-cr-20955-KMW Document 58 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/27/2017 Page 2 of 9 3 claimed that the Defendant obtained the kilograms of cocaine in the Dominican Republic, and the CS assisted in unloading the cocaine from the airplanes on a number of occasions.
