FARC suspects plead guilty to U.S. drug charges
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Two alleged associates of Colombia's   leading rebel group pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiring to   distribute large quantities of cocaine in Miami, authorities   said.
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A former sheriff pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges that he took part in a scheme to sell drugs seized from criminals along with 12 former and current officers.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian President Alvaro   Uribe's U.S.-backed plan to disband right-wing militias has   been hit by charges he is too easy on paramilitaries and that   drug smugglers are posing as fighters to win short jail terms.
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Baltimore Ravens running back Jamal Lewis has agreed to plea guilty in his federal drug conspiracy case, an aide to the presiding judge said Tuesday.
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A Colombian rebel leader was convicted on Monday for conspiring to take hostages in connection with the kidnapping of three American contractors in 2003.
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Two Colombian brothers pleaded guilty on   Tuesday to conspiring to smuggle more than 200 tons of cocaine   into the United States, a deal that prosecutors said shut down   a cartel that once controlled 80 percent of the world's supply   of the drug.
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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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MIAMI - Boxes of guns fell from the false ceiling of a storage unit, crashed into a toilet and ruptured a water pipe, leading authorities to uncover an alleged plot to sell the weapons to arm opposing sides in Colombia's civil war.    Five defendants from Miami-Dade County pleaded innocent Thursday to charges of firearms sales and exports to Venezuela, where prosecutors say the weapons were to be sold to left-wing Colombian rebels and right-wing paramilitary groups...
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(Hartford-AP Sept. 24, 2004 1:00 PM) _ All three people named in the federal indictments stemming from the investigation into the Rowland administration have pleaded innocent to the charges.
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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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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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A federal immigration official pleaded guilty Thursday to receiving more than $600,000 in bribes for falsifying documents for illegal immigrants.
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Chiquita Brands International Inc on Tuesday said the U.S. Justice Dept. has formally recommended that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia approve an agreement under which it would plead guilty to one count of doing business with a terrorist group.
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A Colombian court on Thursday sentenced three suspected members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to 17 years in prison and fined them a total of 426,000 US dollars for training Colombian rebels.
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A Houston man pleaded guilty after he and a Pakistani living illegally in the United States were charged with conspiring to join the Taliban and fight against U.S. forces, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - A Colombian court approved theextradition to the United States of one of the South Americannation's most notorious paramilitary leaders on drug smugglingcharges.
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A man pleaded guilty in a scheme to buy thousands of submachine guns and sell them to Iranians opposed to Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, court records showed.