A former US soldier has pleaded guilty to recruiting an international team of military-trained snipers to carry out contract killings for a drug cartel.
Joseph Manuel Hunter, 49, known as "Rambo", admitted to conspiring to murder a law enforcement officer and two other charges.
Hunter was one of five former soldiers charged in 2013 with agreeing to provide security for what he believed were Colombian cartel leaders.
But the individuals were actually informants for the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
Hunter, who was a sniper instructor in the US Army, is the fourth defendant to plead guilty after former Sergeant Timothy Vamvakias, former German sniper Dennis Gogel and former Polish sniper Slawomir Soborski.
The fifth man charged in the case, former German military sniper Michael Filter, goes on trial in June.
Prosecutors claimed in New York federal court that Hunter worked as a hired killer after leaving the army in 2004 and arranged for several murders.
In a series of meetings in 2013 in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, he met the two undercover agents and agreed to act as head of security for their cartel, according to court documents.
He then assembled the team of former soldiers.
Hunter, Gogel and Vamvakias agreed to assassinate a DEA agent and an informant in Liberia in exchange for $800,000 (£520,000), according to US authorities. The murders were never carried out.
Hunter could face life in prison when he is sentenced in May.
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