Colombian drug baron US-bound
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One of the world's most notorious drug traffickers, Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, is being extradited to the US.
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One of the world's most sought after cocaine kingpins was hunted down and captured in Colombia yesterday in the toughest blow against the country's drugs trade in more than a decade.
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The United States has taken custody of arguably the most important drug kingpin ever to head to a U.S. prison, one of two brothers who founded Colombia's notorious Cali drug cartel.
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The Colombian police captured on Tuesday an important member of the North Cauca Valley, the largestdrug-trafficking ring in the country.
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Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, once one of the world&#39;s most powerful criminals, has been extradited to the US to face drug smuggling and money-laundering charges.
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Most of the cocaine that enters the US has passed through the hands of Colombia's Farc rebels, a US official says.
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President Alvaro Uribe signed the final order Friday to extradite Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, the most powerful Colombian trafficker to ever face trial in the United States.
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Mexico extradited one of the   infamous Arellano Felix drug-smuggling brothers on Saturday to   the United States, where he has faced drug charges since the   1980s, a source in the attorney general's office said.
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A Colombian court approved the extradition to the United States of one of the South American nation's most notorious paramilitary leaders on drug smuggling charges.
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The two brothers accused of running Colombia's Cali cocaine cartel are nearing an agreement to plead guilty in exchange for guarantees that other family members won't face charges and will have access to some of the $2.1 billion the government wants to seize, The Associated Press has learned.
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Every day, American Airlines Flight 914 takes off from Bogota, Colombia, at 8:20 a.m. and touches down at the Miami airport at noon. In the jet's cargo hold are usually bags and bags of euros that investigators say are part of a huge $1.4 billion cocaine money-laundering scheme.
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Colombia offered to extradite a jailed paramilitary chief to the United States on Friday after kicking him out of a peace accord with the government on charges he organized drug trafficking from his prison cell.
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Colombia's top drugs lord, known as the "boss of bosses" for smuggling hundreds of metric tons of cocaine to the United States, was captured on Monday in the country's biggest narcotics arrest in years.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Colombian drug kingpins in league with corrupt Venezuelan military officers are increasingly using this country as a way station for smuggling cocaine to the United States and Europe, according to Colombian and U.S. officials. The Bush administration's dismal relations with...
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A Colombian rebel leader being held  in custody in the United States on drug trafficking and other  charges will appear in court next week, a Justice Department  official said on Saturday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The most important commander  of Colombia's largest rebel army ever captured was handed to  U.S. authorities at a Bogota airport to be extradited to the  United States Friday to face cocaine smuggling and kidnapping  charges.
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NEW YORK -- A wealthy international arms dealer from Syria who once "considered himself untouchable" sought to supply millions of dollars in weapons to Colombian rebels to attack American forces there, US officials said yesterday.