Biography
Yarlei Bañol-Ramos, also known as Diana, was taken into Panamanian police custody on February 22, 2008 after a firefight off Jaqué, Panama. She pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court on February 28, 2011 to conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and was sentenced on September 16, 2011 to 15 years in prison and three years of supervised release.
Arrest chronology reviewed October 12, 2026: DEA's September 19, 2011 sentencing release documents arrest and custody on February 22, 2008, not 2009 as the previous summary stated, and sentencing on September 16, 2011. The structured arrest and sentencing dates already match this source and are unchanged. The existing December 30, 2020 release endpoint has not been independently established by this review and remains an unresolved verification item. No photograph is supplied by this press release.
Official endpoint verification October 13, 2026: BOP register 62176-054 identifies Yarlei Diana Banol-Ramos, age 42, with noncustody as of December 31, 2020. The previous December 30 endpoint is corrected by one day. DEA's contemporary account separately establishes February 22, 2008 Panamanian arrest and custody and the September 16, 2011 US sentence. The prior 4,695-day total used the superseded endpoint and is cleared; an exact uninterrupted international-custody duration is not asserted without verifying all intervening phases. No portrait is supplied by either source.
Sentence and custody-source verification
The April 17, 2009 U.S. Attorney announcement expressly reports the arrival from Panama that day of Alexis Freddy Mosquera-Renteria, Yarlei Bañol-Ramos and Jorge Abel Ibarguen-Palacio to face federal material-support charges. It separately dates their Panamanian police capture and custody to February 22, 2008. April 17 is the documented U.S. arrival, not the beginning of all confinement and not a release. The existing earlier custody dates remain unchanged. The announcement describes complaint allegations and a scheduled court appearance, not a conviction or proof that the scheduled appearance occurred.
