U.S. SOLDIERS PLEAD GUILTY TO ATTEMPTING TO SMUGGLE $1 MILLION WORTH OF COCAINE FROM COLOMBIA ABOARD
Source: Newsweek
U.S. SOLDIERS PLEAD GUILTY TO ATTEMPTING TO SMUGGLE $1 MILLION WORTH OF COCAINE FROM COLOMBIA ABOARD MILITARY PLANE
BY JASON LEMON ON 1/7/19 AT 2:06 PM
Two American special forces soldiers have pled guilty to conspiring to transport $1 million worth of cocaine from Colombia to the United States aboard a military transport plane.
Former Master Sergeant Daniel Gould, 36, and Sergeant 1st Class Henry Royer, 35, who were both Army Green Berets, were caught when they attempted to transport 90 pounds of cocaine via a military aircraft last year, Army Times reported this weekend. According to the report, the soldiers had already successfully trafficked a large quantity of the illicit drug from the South American country in the past, selling it to a distributor in Florida.
Gould and Royer had previously transported 22 pounds of cocaine from the Colombian city of Cali to northwest Florida. They reportedly used a hollowed-out punching bag to conceal the drugs, which were transported to the U.S. In a bid to reinvest the money they made from the sale and make a larger profit, the two men attempted to traffic a larger quantity when they were caught.
“Suspicion was aroused at the United States Embassy when packages were X-rayed, revealing cocaine within gutted out punching bags,” a release from the Justice Department stated, according to the military newspaper.
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That would have kept the Coke out 
President Iván Duque (right) and his political mentor, former President - and DIA-designated kingpin - Álvaro Uribe.
Cheeto's kind of Colombian leadership.
U.S. Commander's Wife Arrested in Drug Case
Military: Spouse of colonel who heads drug-fighting efforts in Colombia is accused of selling narcotics.
August 07, 1999|NORMAN KEMPSTER | TIMES STAFF WRITER
WASHINGTON — The wife of the commander of U.S. military forces that fight drug trafficking in Colombia has been arrested on charges of sending cocaine into the United States, federal prosecutors said Friday.
Laurie Hiett, 36, who is married to Army Col. James Hiett, was charged with conspiracy to distribute narcotics after several parcels of cocaine that she had allegedly sent from Bogota, Colombia, via the U.S. Embassy post office--at least one with her own return address on it--were discovered in the mail. The parcels were addressed to recipients in New York, the prosecutors said.
Lee Dunst, assistant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, said that Hiett, who had been brought back to the country as part of the investigation, surrendered Thursday and was released on a $150,000 bond. If convicted, she faces up to 12 years in prison. She was ordered to turn in her passport and was told not to leave the United States, he said.
In an interview with investigators, Hiett said she did not know the contents of the packages and that she mailed them as a favor to a Colombian who worked at the embassy.
More:
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/aug/07/news/mn-63473
13 minute segment from 60 Minutes:
60 Minutes, The Colonel's Wife (Laurie Hiett)
produced by Robert Anderson, fl. 2000-2013, Columbia Broadcasting System; interview by Mike Wallace, 1918-2012, in 60 Minutes (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System, 2000), 13 mins
https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C2856149
