Raul Garcia Essay

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Raul Garcia Crimes Committed The incident which got Raul Garcia aka Edilberto Munoz Coronell into this whole fiasco took place on September 30, 1994. The following sequence of events explains how the incident took place; Garcia and his partner Marquez were seen standing together at the side of an open field of grass at Whitehall, St. Peter. Garcia had a cellular phone in his left hand and a hired blue Subaru motor car parked near to them. A piece of red cloth was attached to each of three trees in the field to mark off the area for the plane. A small white aircraft approached from the north travelling towards the south at a low altitude. As it approached the open field it descended and four large packages were dropped from it on to the field. Both Marquez and Garcia ran towards the packages and each of them took one, returned and put it down. The aircraft repeated the maneuver and three more packages were dropped on to the field. The two appellants again ran into the field towards the three packages and Garcia took up one of them, returned with it and put it down near to the two packages that had been removed from the first drop. Two members of the surveillance team then approached the appellants and when they were about fifty yards away, the appellants looked in their direction, shouted "police" and ran and got into the car which Garcia drove away leaving behind the three packages that they had removed from the field. The appellants were later apprehended and taken back to the scene where the surveillance team had taken possession of the three packages. The search was later aborted when the fourth package and the cellular phone were in police. In an unsworn defense Garcia and Marquez. Spoke about returning from Bogota to Barbados with emeralds, delivering the emeralds to the jewellery store, and their decision to obtain a vehicle to

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