Costa Rican Authorities Puzzled By Contents In Colombian ExGuerila Storage Warehouse
Authorities are intrigued by the off find in the warehouse of former Colombian "guerillero" Libardo Parra Vargas detained this week. In a warehouse owned by Parra, police found some 30 "quintales" (a unit of mass in the metric system equal to 100 kilograms) of beans and 15 mattresses.

What is puzzling authorities is why would a person that lives in such a luxurious home would have so many mattresses in storage, that apparently had been used but did not belong to a bed. And why would the man have such a stockpile of beans when his principal business is liquor. And what about the 25 cellular telephones?

Parras was detained by police on Thursday when left the Multiplaza shopping centre in Escazú and was heading home a short distance from the mall. Police found some us$40.000 in cash he had hidden in his vehicle. Authorities found more cash when they searched his home and storage warehouse, along with important pieces of art and other valuables.

Francisco Dall'Anese, the fiscal general de la República (chief prosecutor), confirmed that a total of us$1.4 million dollars cash was found during the searches.|

Authorities believe that the answer to their questions may lie in the mounds of documents they confiscated during the search, including an M-19 diary that appear to have recent entries.

Parra was head of the M-19 group in Colombia that was dismantled in 1990, according to Otti Patiño, speaking to Costa Rican officials by telephone, who was one of the founders of the group and now active in politics in Bogotá. Patiño said that at the time there some 900 soldiers who all went their separate ways.

Parra is wanted in Colombia after being sentenced to 20 years prison for extortion and kidnapping. He is being held in a Costa Rican jail, a judge ordering a two month preventive detention, while authorities complete their investigation and wait a formal extradition request by the Colombian government.