Biography
Jorge Bautista Martinez was caught in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement sting along with nine other co-defendants. Bautista arranged for an undercover informant posing as a FARC member to travel safely through Bogota’s airport. He acted as an intermediary for a smuggling scheme, introduced an informant to his airport immigration contact, and offered to obtain boarding passes for him and secure a Colombian passport and visa. He also ushered the informant through all immigration controls.
Case characteristics: FBI sting operation, FBI confidential informant. Organization referenced in charging documents: FARC.
Case data and description from The Intercept's Trial and Terror project (Trevor Aaronson and Margot Williams), licensed CC BY-NC. Source: https://github.com/theintercept/trial-and-terror-data
