Colombian national pleads guilty in murder case of U.S. agent

One of seven Colombians removed to the United States to face charges originating from the 2013 hijacking and slaughtering of a U.s. Drug Enforcement Administration operator has conceded to joining in the wrongdoing, government authorities said on Thursday.

Julio Estiven Gracia Ramirez, 31, conceded supporting and abetting others in the June 2013 executing of DEA Special Agent James "Terry" Watson in Colombia's capital of Bogota as a feature of a burglary and-grabbing ring, the DEA said in an announcement. He additionally confessed to a hijacking scheme charge.

The supplication was entered on Wednesday under the watchful eye of a government judge in Virginia, court records indicated.

Ramirez and six others were removed from the South American nation in July regarding the wrongdoing. He said the group was doing a "mogul's ride," drawing an apparently rich individual into a taxi to be ransacked, when Watson was executed, as per the DEA.

Soon after Watson, a 13-year DEA veteran, entered Ramirez's taxi outside a restaurant, two associates of Ramirez bounced in, jarring the executor with an electric immobilizer and wounding him, the DEA said. Watson got away yet later given way and passed on from his wounds.

"Specialist Watson gave his life in the administration of his nation, and we will do everything in our energy to respect his offering," Attorney General Eric Holder said in an announcement.

As a feature of his supplication bargain with government prosecutors, Ramirez consented to affirm against his six co-litigants, as indicated by court reports.

Oviedo-Garcia was furthermore accused of two checks of attack, and a sixth respondent, Wilson Daniel Peralta-Bocachica, 31, was accused in association of suspected endeavors to annihilate proof.

The remaining respondents are booked to go on trial in January.

5. He confronts a most extreme punishment of life in jail and a $250,000 fine.