Paraguayan authorities arrested the American Jabari Stephen Brown, known for having won a competition organized by MrBeast, the youtuber with the most followers in the world, for transporting on a private plane 261.6 kilos of marijuana, The National Anti-Drug Secretariat (Senad) reported this Sunday.
Brown, the agency said EFEwas captured on Saturday night in a hotel in Asunción, when he was one of the crew members of the plane that landed at the Silvio Pettirossi airportthe main one in the country, coming from Miami (United States), where the Senad (National Anti-Drug Secretariat) found a shipment of marijuana with high THC content hidden in luggage.
In addition to the former MrBeast contestant, the authorities detained three other people who were sent from the Senad operations base to the Public Ministry, where prosecutors took their statementsthe anti-drug entity indicated in a statement.
The other crew members traveling with Jabari Stephen Brown were identified as Marisol Rivas, Anthony Vásquez and David Thomas Wiseall of American nationality and crew members of the plane. They were charged by the Prosecutor’s Office for international drug traffickingreported the local newspaper ABC Color.
According to the anti-drug entity, Brown achieved international notoriety on the internet for having won «an executive jet valued at millions of dollars» in a competition organized by MrBeast which brought together a hundred pilots.
However, the Senad reported this Sunday that the Estonian citizen Keith Silats, whom he identified as co-founder of the micromobility company Bolt Mobility in the United States, He is allegedly the owner and pilot of the seized aircraft.
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Siilats would have left Paraguay on Saturday morning, hours before the intervention that allowed the seizure of the aircraft and the shipment of marijuana, according to intelligence information.
The stash of ‘marihuana premium’, a variety of narcotic that has a «high THC content» (tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive element in cannabis), was discovered on Saturday by Paraguayan authorities when Several suitcases were unloaded from the aircraft to be transferred to a vehicle that would be destined for Asunción.according to the Senad.
The institution estimated that each kilogram of the drug could cost close to $14,000 in the Brazilian market.
With information from EFE
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