of a vehicle on boats as shown in the video was "normal." (Trial Tr. PM Session 42-49, Mar. 18, 2010.) Vargas said he had seen the defendant transport in his boat food, gasoline, chemicals used to process coca, weapons or ammunition, and finished cocaine. (Trial Tr. PM Session 50-51, Mar. 18, 2010.) Vargas said the defendant's boat could carry three to four tons of weight. (Trial Tr. PM Session 51, Mar. 18, 2010.)
Vargas said he was involved in moving "[m]ore or less 100 tons or more" of cocaine during the time he worked for the FARC. (Trial Tr. AM Session 16, Mar. 18, 2010.) He said he was also involved in shipping weapons, including buying "10,000 rifles, AK-47s," and delivering them to the FARC's 16th Front. (Trial Tr.AM Session 17, Mar. 18, 2010.)
Vargas said the last time he saw the defendant was in 2002 when they "worked together at selling and buying drugs, that is cocaine, and from him I bought some drugs, and he sent me the cocaine to Suriname, which is where I was." (Trial Tr. AM Session 11-12, Mar. 18, 2010.) Vargas explained that he was arrested that year in Suriname for cocaine trafficking. (Trial Tr. AM Session 12, Mar. 18, 2010.) Vargas pled guilty to a United States indictment that charged him with conspiracy to traffic drugs and was sentenced in 2008 to serve 117 months of imprisonment. (Trial Tr. AM Session 12, 15, 16, Mar. 18, 2010.)
The trial took nearly six weeks and ended with the jury returning a guilty