Colombia extradites cocaine lord "Scratch" to U.S.
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Colombia extradited a top cocaine trafficker to the United States on Thursday to face trial, hoping that testimony he gives will help dismantle the Andean country's toughest drug cartel.
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Top Marxist rebel Ricardo Palmera was extradited to the United States yesterday, becoming the first leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to face US drug and terrorism charges, officials said. Army commandos with assault rifles and US Drug Enforcement Administration agents escorted Palmera, wearing handcuffs and a bulletproof jacket, to a US government plane at a military airfield outside Bogota.
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A man who admitted smuggling more than 24 tons of cocaine into the United States from 1984 to 2000 was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in federal prison.
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Colombia&#39;s top drug kingpin is now in custody in the US A plane from Colombia to Miami touched down earlier Saturday with Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela on board.
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Colombia's most notorious cocaine trafficker, Diego Montoya, was captured on Monday after a long manhunt in which the United States offered $5 million for information leading to his arrest, the government said.
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Reputed Bahamian drug lord Samuel Knowles   has been extradited to Miami where he was first indicted six   years ago for his alleged involvement in cocaine and marijuana   smuggling, authorities said on Thursday.
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Mexico has asked the United States to extradite a suspected narcotics manufacturer who owns a Mexico City mansion where police discovered $206 million in cash earlier this year, a government source said on Friday.
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A top Colombian guerrilla leader was convicted on Tuesday in a U.S. court on charges she conspired to import cocaine into the United States to raise cash to buy weapons and ammunition.
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BOGOTA  - One of the 12 drug dealers most sought by the United States was captured yesterday, police said. Dagoberto Florez Rios, for whose capture the United States had offered US$5 million, was arrested
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One of Colombia's biggest drug traffickers, in an interview broadcast Monday, claimed credit for the 1993 killing of rival drug lord Pablo Escobar, saying he supplied police with a tracking device that allowed them to hunt down the Medellin drug cartel leader.
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A founder of a Colombian drug cartel that became the world's chief supplier of cocaine in the 1990s was transported to a Florida jail Saturday after being extradited from Colombia.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela said on Friday it   had arrested a top Colombian cocaine baron in a luxury villa in   Caracas, but did not name him.
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President Ãlvaro Uribe signed the final order on Friday to extradite Gilberto RodrÃ­guez Orejuela, who would be the most prominent cocaine kingpin sent to the United States to face justice.
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The most important rebel commander ever captured by Colombia was sent to the United States on Friday to face cocaine smuggling and kidnapping charges.
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Drug kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, wearing handcuffs and a bulletproof vest, flew late Friday aboard U.S. government plane for trial in the United States, becoming the most powerful Colombian trafficker to ever be extradited to the United States.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - A commander of Colombia'slargest rebel army was handed over to U.S. authorities at aBogota airport for extradition to the United States Friday oncocaine smuggling and kidnapping charges.
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Colombia's government offered to extradite a jailed paramilitary chief to the United States on Friday after kicking him out of a peace accord for organizing drug trafficking from his prison cell.