US soldiers partying in Colombia drank spiked drinks

| May 8, 2023

A couple of US soldiers decided to have a great time while at Bogota, Colombia. During the course of their partying, three Colombian nationals spiked their drinks. This facilitated the ability for the nationals to steal valuables from the soldiers and to pull money out of their accounts. The FBI, and the Colombian National Police, conducted a joint investigation and discovered the three culprits. The US extradited one of them and is apparently looking to extradite the others. One of them has already made a court appearance in Miami, Florida.

From Fox News:

Authorities say the two soldiers went to an upscale Bogota bar one night to watch a soccer game and dance with local women, but the night ended with one soldier found stumbling down the street and another passed out in his apartment. Both soldiers were missing their wallets and cellphones and had little recollection of the night before, with blood tests showing they had been drugged.

Surveillance video from the bar showed the three Colombian men drugging the soldiers’ drinks and then leading them out of the bar around 2 a.m. to a waiting car. Later, surveillance video at a bank, ATM and stores show Arango allegedly using the soldiers’ debit and credit cards.

Colombian police began intercepting phone communications between the three men after they were identified, with authorities alleging the men discussed robbing people after drugging them at bars and expressed anger that the looming COVID-19 pandemic would shut down their scheme.

According to the FBI, Arango admitted to federal authorities that he and the two men drugged the soldiers before taking them to a local hotel. From there, he was able to get one debit card PIN code by convincing the solider he needed to pay for something and that a cellphone was a payment pad, causing the soldier to type his PIN into the phone that Arango later used to withdraw money.

Fox News has additional information here.

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2banana

When she’s hot and you’re not…

It’s either an OPSEC violation or you are about to get robbed.

MustangCryppie

In the PI, we used to call the “when she’s hot and you’re not” situation “Pesonality”.

MustangCryppie

Pulled into Subic on USS Carl Vinson. Boot Sailor who looked like the Pillsbury Dough Boy with BCGs went out on his very first PI liberty. Came back from said liberty telling all who would listen that he was GETTING MARRIED! Pulled out a pic of his “Honeyko” who was a 15 on a scale of 1 to 10. A five alarm fire in many, many ways.

The dough boy told us that he wanted this gorgeous babe to go live with his parents in West Virginia while he finished his stint in the USN. (I still laugh when I think of that) She said that it would make more sense if he let her stay where she is and set up an allotment for her. I bet she did.

Anyway, an old Pac Fleet Sailor in our division immediately said to this kid, “Son, come here! We need to have a talk!”

The rest of the workcenter pried the name of the bar where she worked out of him so we could, ahem, make sure that she was right for him.

Pesonality, it’s a thing!

timactual

There was a guy in my platoon at Ft. Benning who was madly in love and “engaged” to a sweet young thing he met on R&R in Taipei. He was trying to get her to the US so they could be wed. He had a picture of her that he would moon over. I thought she looked familiar, but I may have been mistaken; too much of a coincidence. After all, I only spent a few days in Taipei and didn’t spend much time gazing into the eyes of my companion, although it was a fairly memorable few days.

Sapper3307

It was covered in the safety briefing. 100%

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Roh-Dog
MustangCryppie

OH MY GAWD!

SFC D

MY EYES! Holy shit that’s terrifying!

rgr769

Welp, she is mostly a beard, even if she doesn’t have one.

timactual

But I’m pretty sure I see a moustache there.

(Note the lack gender specific pronouns—it’s intentional)

Devtun

Mighty Man: Yukk, put your doghouse back on!!!

MCPO USN

Barry and Larry

timactual

Why?!?
What did I do to you?

Just….why?

ChipNASA

Fine…you STARTED IT!!!

LMFAO

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ChipNASA

huh…

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ChipNASA

Noooo

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Harry

Didn’t this very same thing happen twice over the last few years in Colombia? Once to some Secret Service agents and again to a couple US Marine Corps officers?

MustangCryppie

It’s hard to turn away those smokin’ hot Colombian women!

2banana

You should be running away.

The amount of careers ruined is monumental.

MustangCryppie

Oh, yeah. Agreed. Still damn tough. Especially with a few cervezas in your belly.

And times have changed. The things that used to happen on WestPac weren’t career killers. They were the makers of legends!

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timactual

“And times have changed.”

And they call it progress.

Grunt

Not exactly. The SS agents went out and bought some hookers, fucked them, and then refused to pay them.

Sounds like in this case, while these Soldiers could have been more situationally aware, they didn’t do anything wrong.

This probably also explains the effort to find, arrest, and extradite the assholes who drugged them.

5JC

I had to take extra “Do not traffic in human beings while in other countries” classes thanks to those assholes, because like, I didn’t already know that.

rgr769

I thought the real pro’s always collected their fees up front. Or, at least made sure the money was on the nightstand before performing their services.

MustangCPT

Maybe the pros were a little star-struck hanging out with a by-god Secret Agent Man:

https://youtu.be/6iaR3WO71j4

🤣🍺🍷🥃

“Dónde está mi maldito dinero 💰?”

MustangCPT

And now I come to find out that Johnny Rivers’ version of “Secret Agent Man” was kind of a cover. Here’s the original, “Danger Man.” Not quite there, but close:

https://youtu.be/iC4O1ncLjMw

Apparently the original songwriter/artist was producing Johnny at the time and some tweaks were made. My buddy’s band used to cover “Secret Agent Man” and he’d throw in some guitar fills from the “007” theme song just to add some more ‘60’s ambience. It worked quite well.

Grunt

One of our guys here in the office has a story about a foursome with a buddy and two hookers- they paid the hookers with a fucking check.

Guess what.

The check bounced 😂

timactual

“they paid the hookers with a fucking check.”

Tried that once. I asked up front (my basic honesty often gets in the way) “Would you take a check?”. She declined. Ah, well.

MustangCPT

Jerry Springer paid for a hooker with a check when he was mayor of Cincinnati. The place got raided at some point and the check was found.

Old tanker

A while back, in the time of “Just Cause” the troops in country at Panama were told the fun places (aka bars / brothels) were off limits. I had been sent there TDY to assist in working with the Panamanian Federal Police along with a buddy from the same PD and Reserve unit. It was our job to check and make sure none of the troops were partaking of same. That meant we had to enter and check out the location.

The locals told us the majority of “ladies” in the brothers were Columbians and the Panamanian men knew that you went to the brothels for fun but married a Panamanian woman to have a good home. The Columbian women there were hotter than a gas stove on high and “dressed to impress”.

jeff LPH 3 63-66

We were in Panama for the Marines to go to the Army’s Jungle survival school back in 1964 and I remember all the bars were lined up so one could walk through one door and would be in the next bar. We saw a show with Women impersonators and their were vendors selling grilled iguana meat on wood skewers. One of the crew members brought a match box onboard saying that the guy sold him Spanish fly and when he opened the box, their was a DOA fly lying inside the box. If Memory serves me correct, we were in Cologne Panama. Any of you Gals/Guys correct me if the school was in Cologne????

RGR 4-78

Yes, it is on the Cologne side of the isthmus.

MustangCPT

It’s Colon, not Cologne. 🤣 Although a nice smooth Kolsch beer would hit the spot right about now. 🍺

RGR 4-78

I guess I was trying to make my statement smell better. 😀 

timactual

“Wir wollen Wulle”.

When a Brit says “local” he mans his local pub; in Germany it seems to be the local brand of beer. I am still in awe of the number of beer brands in Germany.

RCAF-CHAIRBORNE

Here’s a Panama story for ya….
A young stoker ( Kevin) from HMCS Ottawa had a fun night involving many cheap drinks and an absolutely gorgeous smokeshow of a young lady who took him home. I don’t think he even paid for her.
Next day, we are sitting around enjoying our ‘ stand easy ‘ soup and swapping tales of debauchery. Kevin sits down with his bowl of soup, looking strangely morose for someone who had a night like he did.
So we pried. Did she rob you? Was she a pro? Did she have a bigger cock than you?
All ” No ”
Finally, ” If she gave me something, I wouldn’t feel it already would I? ”
” Probably not. Why? ”
Kevin, ” The tip of my cock is burning ”
We convinced Kevin to go see the PA immediately and went on with our days.

Later that afternoon, ” Guys! I don’t have VD. Turns out, it was a peppercorn! ”
Kevin saw the confusion on our faces and explained that the baby doc fished a partially digested peppercorn out of his penis. Huh?
Kevin then explained that his gorgeous senorita was having her monthly visit so she insisted that he use the backdoor only.
That is how he became known as Corn on the Knob Kevin.

MustangCPT

I’m calling bullshit on this story. Some clown was claiming the same thing in the “Letters” section of Maxim back in the late 90’s, only in his case it was a Mexican broad and a jalapeño seed!🤣

timactual

That still leaves unanswered the question “Did she have a bigger cock than you?”.

Veritas Omnia Vincit

That’s the old joke,

“My girlfriend said a small penis isn’t a problem,

I just wish she didn’t have one at all…”

timactual

“Panamanian men knew that you went to the brothels for fun but married a Panamanian woman to have a good home.”

Which is probably also what the Columbian men knew when they met those Columbian women on their return to Columbia; especially Columbian women with money.

AZRobert

Where’s a General Hooker when you might need him, solve some problems for the safety of the Troops!

Eggs

Well we barely make the airport
For the last plane out
As we taxied down the runway
I could hear the people shout
They said, “don’t come back here Yankee”
But if I ever do
I’ll bring more money
‘Cause all she wants to do is dance

Thunderstixx

All we had in the Ft Wainwright area was the Flame lounge, the topless bar. I wasted many a $20 in that place.
Then there were the natives who were good to almost all of us. Got them at the Chena Bar on Second Avenue.
Had a blast there and got to be a pretty good pool player too.

MustangCPT

I had a buddy who was stationed at Eeilson back in the early ‘70’s. I’ll ask him about that joint.

MustangCPT

Update on this one. I called him up and he denied all knowledge of the place. Now, it could be either that the place wasn’t in business when he was stationed there, or his memory is a little foggy since it’s been 50 years, or he’s just straight up lyin’. I’m guessing it’s door #3…🤣

Forest Bondurant

At least neither one of the soldiers woke up in a bathtub full of ice and their kidneys missing.

(Remember that bullshit urban legend?)

SFC D

Had a 1SG put it in a Friday safety briefing in 1997.

Anna Puma

And it wasn’t even Bangkok…

ninja

Kathoey or Katoey….

Dennis - not chevy

There was a Columbian woman working at a BX kiosk who was finer than frog’s hair; however, she wouldn’t give a GI the time of day. One day I accidently poured an entire torque converter’s reservoir of transmission fluid all over myself. I cleaned up as best I could but couldn’t get it out of my hair. After that I said I was late for lunch so I was going to the BX to get a hot dog. Well, there she was. She approached me saying, “Sergento, your hair is so shiny, it really turns me on”. When I got back to the shop I laughingly told the troops about my encounter. I will swear they rubbed transmission fluid into their scalps and ran to the BX.

MustangCPT

BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Joes will be Joes!

MCPO USN

cut their nuts off and send them back to Columbia.

MustangCPT

Tough…but fair.

timactual

Since when does US law apply in foreign countries?