receipt for it or else, without the receipt, he would risk the drugs being confiscated.
(Trial Tr. PM Session 31-32, Mar. 18, 2010.)
Vargas testified about a transaction that involved he and Negro Acacio contracting with a man who said he could get 200 *20 kilograms of cocaine onto a Colombian Air Force plane that was going to the United States. (Trial Tr. PM Session 34, Mar. 18, 2010.) Vargas and Negro Acacio had 50 kilograms put on the plane, which arrived in Texas but the drugs were seized. (Trial Tr. PM Session 34, Mar. 18, 2010.)
The prosecutor asked Vargas about a man named Fernandino, who Vargas said was a kingpin in Brazil on the scale of Pablo Escobar. (Trial Tr. PM Session 35, Mar. 18, 2010.) Vargas said Fernandinobought drugs from a man known as "Jay" or "Jota," who in turn sometimes got drugs from Negro Acacio. (Trial Tr. PM Session 35, Mar. 18, 2010.) Vargas said he knew Fernandino had been arrested because "he was in the plane when we were brought down." (Trial Tr. PM Session 36, Mar. 18, 2010.)
Vargas was shown a videotape and transcript of the defendant and others moving a vehicle across the Orinoco River from Colombia to Venezuela, which was Government's Exhibits 802 and 802T. (Trial Tr. PM Session 36, Mar. 18, 2010.) While the videotape played, Vargas identified Guillermo Cochornea, the defendant, and the defendant's voice, the location in Garcitas, the pistol the defendant was carrying and the sheath, the defendant's boat, the river, and said that the movement