LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A Philippine national pleaded guilty today in downtown Los Angeles to bringing 430 pounds of cocaine on an oil tanker inbound from Ecuador to El Segundo earlier this year.
Ceasar Tubay Gelacio, Jr., 43, of the Philippines, pleaded guilty to one federal count of knowingly bringing cocaine on a vessel arriving in the United States.
According to his plea agreement, Gelacio was a seaman on the Aquatravesia, an oil tanker that was scheduled to arrive in El Segundo. While at port in Ecuador, Gelacio agreed with an unknown person using the moniker “Luis” to possess and conceal more than 11 pounds of cocaine on the vessel…