Figueroa Agosto pleads guilty to drug trafficking and money laundering
He had converted Puerto Rico into his distribution center of cocaine towards the United States
Diario Libre
SAN JUAN. The Puerto Rican drug trafficker, Jose David Figueroa Agosto, alias "Junior Capsula," pleaded guilty yesterday to the charges of drug trafficking and money laundering. His plea was heard by the federal Judge Juan Perez Jimenez, according to the internet edition of the newspaper "El Nuevo Dia."
The federal authorities say that Junior Capsula, who lived as a fugitive from justice for many years in the Dominican Republic, had converted Puerto Rico into his center for distributing cocaine in the United States.
Figueroa Agosto has been confined until now to a cell in a federal jail in the city of New York, from where he was transferred to Puerto Rico to stand trial.
Junior Capsula was arrested in July 2010 on the streets of the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan in an operation in which members of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the local Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) all took part.
Figueroa Agosto fled in 1999 to the Dominican Republic after escaping in a confusing incident from the Rio Piedras Jail where he was serving a long sentence for crimes of murder, kidnapping and violation of the Gun Laws.
The federal authorities say that Junior Capsula, who lived as a fugitive from justice for many years in the Dominican Republic, had converted Puerto Rico into his center for distributing cocaine in the United States.
Figueroa Agosto has been confined until now to a cell in a federal jail in the city of New York, from where he was transferred to Puerto Rico to stand trial.
Junior Capsula was arrested in July 2010 on the streets of the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan in an operation in which members of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the local Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) all took part.
Figueroa Agosto fled in 1999 to the Dominican Republic after escaping in a confusing incident from the Rio Piedras Jail where he was serving a long sentence for crimes of murder, kidnapping and violation of the Gun Laws.
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