Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 17

Man Gets 25 Years for Scheme to Arm Colombian Terrorists

TAMPA, Fla. — A Colombian man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempting to illegally export arms to a Colombian terrorist organization.

Carlos Enrique Gamarra-Murillo, 54, pleaded guilty earlier this year to the charges. He was arrested by ICE agents following an undercover investigation into Gamarra-Murillo’s attempt to acquire arms for Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization in Colombia.

The case began in March 2003, when Gamarra-Murillo met with an ICE confidential informant (CI) in Colombia and said that he was interested in purchasing numerous firearms and other weapons and bringing them into Colombia for a client. Over the next year, the CI and ICE undercover agents met with Gamarra-Murillo to arrange the deal.

On April 1, 2004, Gamarra-Murillo met in Tampa with the CI and ICE undercover agents to finalize the $4 million deal for machine guns, grenade launchers and grenades, assault rifles, handguns and ammunition. Gamarra-Murillo told the ICE agents to deliver the munitions to an airstrip in Venezuela where members of FARC would receive the goods. He told the ICE agents that payment would be made at the airstrip, 40 percent in U.S. currency and 60 percent in cocaine.

During the negotiations, Gamarra-Murillo also told the ICE agents that he was interested in negotiating for Stinger missiles and Russian-made surface-to-air missiles in a future transaction. He was then arrested by ICE agents and taken into custody.

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