A boat captain who was smuggling cocaine for one of El Chapo's drug lords sank 20,000kg into the sea after he became paranoid and 'went crazy' snorting the narcotics himself, a court heard.
The haul of drugs was being sent to Sinaloa in Mexico around 300 miles along the Mexican coast for one of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's lieutenants, Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, also known as 'El Chupeta' or 'Lollipop' in English.
But the boat's captain started taking the drugs himself and began 'seeing ghosts' and thought the American Coast Guard were closing in on the ship so dumped the entire stash of narcotics into the ocean, Ramirez told Brooklyn federal court yesterday.
The 55-year-old told the jury he was then flown in a helicopter with the help of the Mexican federal police to try and recover the missing drugs, but could see 'nothing other than sea'.
Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia told the Brooklyn federal court of the extent of the Sinaloa cartel's drug smuggling operation
A handcuffed Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman is made to face the press as he is escorted to a helicopter by Mexican soldiers and marines at a federal hangar in Mexico City in 2016
Colombian drug lord, Ramirez said: 'He [the captain] started to see ghosts everywhere and American Coast Guard everywhere, and he sunk the ship.
'When I saw all that sea, I became very sad. I was down. I said, 'They're never going to find it.'
The court did not hear any evidence about what happened to the ship's captain.
Amado Carrillo, another high-ranking member of the Sinaloa cartel, sent out divers to try to find the over-board cocaine, but it was only found a year later, the court heard.
After this incident a member of Ramirez's crew escorted the drugs to the destination.
In a separate voyage, a hurricane also sank a ship carrying 40,000kgs of El Chapo's cocaine - worth a around $42 million.
The boat, its crew and the drugs were never found, Ramirez told the court.
Ramirez was arrested in Brazil in 2007 and extradited to the United States after he attempted to disguise his appearance by undergoing a series of face-altering surgeries.
Colombia's Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia arrives to a federal police station after being arrested in Sao Paulo in 2007
El Chapo's son, Ivan Guzman, posted this huge stash of cash to his Facebook page
He pleaded guilty in 2010 to drug trafficking charges and is currently being held in a US federal prison.
During an earlier hearing he told the federal jury he used El Chapo's Sinaloa cartel to move more than 440 tons of cocaine.
Ramirez estimated that while leading the Norte de Valle cartel in Columbia, he ordered at least 150 killings.
He tried to hide his identity by surgically altering his eyes, cheeks, jaw and nearly every other facial feature.
Investigators were only able to confirm his identity using a voiceprint analysis of his taped telephone conversations.
Ramierez also told the court he had a cartel business model that included a division entirely devoted to using drug money to bribe authorities to 'not do their jobs' to enforce drug laws.
He testified that it was clear Guzman, 61, had similar arrangements when he flew planes loaded with Colombian cocaine to Mexico, where they were greeted by police officers who helped unload the goods.
El Chapo's son, Ivan Guzman, posted this picture of a gold-plated AK-47 in his Ferrari on Instagram
Alfredo Guzmán, the son of El Chapo, posted this picture of his lion cub and his Bentley on social media
Another witness described how the Sinaloa cartel was smuggling tons of cocaine into the United States through tunnels dug under the border, in tanker trucks with secret compartments, even in fake chili pepper and jalapeno cans.
Workers packing the coke into the cans 'got intoxicated because whenever you would press the kilos, it would release cocaine into the air', former cartel member Miguel Angel Martinez told the court.
The court also heard El Chapo was so rich, he had a private zoo with big cats, bought a $10 million beach house, had three private jets and traveled to Switzerland for an anti-aging treatment.
During the trial at the New York City courthouse, Guzman pleaded not guilty to drug-trafficking charges that could land him in a U.S. prison for life if he is convicted.
Guzman was extradited to the U.S. last year from Mexico and has pleaded not guilty to drug-trafficking charges, with his lawyers claiming he is being framed by his former employees who have turned informants.
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