Two U.S. soldiers were drugged, kidnapped and robbed at an upscale sports bar in Colombia, according to the Justice Department, which announced that a suspect has been extradited to the U.S. to face trial.
The suspected ringleader used the fake name “Harry Potter” and regularly committed similar robberies, according to the FBI and Colombian police.
His real name is Jeffersson Arango Castellanos, and he made his first appearance before an American judge in Miami, Florida, on Monday on charges of conspiracy, kidnapping and assault targeting internationally protected persons.
He and two alleged conspirators could face a maximum of life in prison if convicted.
According to court documents, the two U.S. soldiers went to a sports pub in Bogota’s Zona T commercial district, on March 5, 2020, to watch a soccer match. On that day, the U.S. Women’s National Team defeated their rivals from the United Kingdom.
Both men vanished overnight and failed to report to work the next morning, a criminal complaint states.
Both had been robbed of their phones, wallets and other valuables and were covered in bruises, court documents allege. And neither of them could remember what happened the night before.
Investigators quickly assumed both had been drugged, and testing confirmed the presence of benzodiazepines, or tranquilizers, in their systems.
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