Colombia grabs alleged cocaine kingpin
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Soldiers swarmed onto a farm Monday and captured one of the world's most wanted drug traffickers hiding in bushes in his underwear. Colombian officials called it their biggest drug war victory since the 1993 slaying of Medellin cartel leader Pablo Escobar.
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A joint French, American and British anti-narcotics operation intercepted four smugglers with 880 pounds of cocaine off the coast of Colombia this week, France's Defense Ministry said Friday.
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Colombian rebels attempted to traffic drugs through Chile, police said Saturday in describing the seizure of almost a half-ton of cocaine and arrests 12 people.
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DRUG kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, has been flown to the United States for trial, becoming the most powerful Colombian trafficker to be extradited to America.
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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - The most important rebelcommander ever captured by Colombia was sent to the UnitedStates on Friday to face cocaine smuggling and kidnappingcharges.
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TWO of Colombiaâs most powerful drug barons watched impotently from their prison cells yesterday as the state seized their fortune, estimated at more than Â£120 million.
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The Colombian government is pursuing a relentless campaign to seize drug traffickers' assets.
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A Colombian female guerrilla wanted in the United States for the kidnapping of three Americans and trafficking cocaine has been captured by the army near Venezuela's border, authorities said on Saturday.
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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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Mexico has captured a drug lord  suspected of handling half of the illegal drugs smuggled into  the United States and who had a $2 million price tag on his  head, the government said on Monday.
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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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BOGOTA -- One of Colombia's biggest drug traffickers, in an interview broadcast yesterday, 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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Colombian police captured a regional rebel commander suspected of involvement in deadly attacks on government troops and a mass kidnapping in which one hostage died, authorities said Monday.
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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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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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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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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The chief of international  relations for Colombia's biggest leftist rebel group, who once  sought support from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, was arrested  after a months-long manhunt, police said on Wednesday.