In 2018, an Ecuadorian man named Miguel Angel Rogel-Anchundia was cruising on a drug boat called "El Condor" 235 miles northeast of the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean, in international waters.
Juan Bautista Franco belonged to an international crew of drug traffickers that, sometime in 2018, was found on a boat racing toward the U.S. shoreline with approximately 800 kilograms of cocaine.