Colombian Drug Kingpin Transported to U.S.
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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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BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 10 -- A reputed cocaine kingpin who is among the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives was captured Monday in an army operation that is being hailed by government officials as a major blow against drug trafficking in this Andean country.
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Mexico has captured a drug lord  accused of handling half of the illegal drugs smuggled across  the border into the United States and who had a $2 million  price tag on his head, the government said on Monday.
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BOGOTA -- Police captured a suspected leader of the Norte del Valle drug cartel yesterday, the latest arrest in a US-backed effort to dismantle a gang accused of trafficking half of all cocaine sold in the United States in the 1990s. Dagoberto Florez was on a list of most wanted alleged cocaine kingpins sought by US authorities under a court ...
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Now that America's most-wanted cocaine trafficker is about to be extradited to the U.S., his rivals and lieutenants are struggling for command of Colombia's dominant cartel, authorities say. But whoever wins will inherit a criminal organization tottering on the edge of extinction.
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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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Gilberto Higuera Guerrero, said to be behind half the cocaine smuggled into the US from Mexico, is arrested.
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Colombia extradited a top leftist rebel to the United States on Friday to face drug and terror charges, an unprecedented move that followed his group's refusal to free dozens of hostages, including three Americans and a German.
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An American actor accused of drug smuggling returned home to Los Angeles on Sunday after spending nearly three years in a Pakistani prison before a judge commuted his sentence.
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The most powerful drug lord ever  extradited by Colombia appeared chained before a U.S. judge on  Monday, and his lawyer said he would fight U.S. charges he ran  his multibillion-dollar business from a Colombian jail cell.
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A reputed drug kingpin sought by the United States has been deported to Colombia, Cuba's government said Thursday. Colombia has said it will extradite Luis Hernando Gomez Bustamante to the U.S.
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Colombia's top drug lord, who earned the title "boss of bosses" for smuggling hundreds of tonnes of cocaine to the United States, was captured on Monday, the country's biggest narcotics arrest in a decade.
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An alleged kidnapper featured on "America's Most Wanted" turned himself in to U.S. authorities and was deported to the United States, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico said Friday.
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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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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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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - The former boss of the Calidrug cartel, who once controlled most of the world's cocainetrade, was sent to the United States on Friday to facetrafficking and money laundering charges.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 10 -- A reputed cocaine kingpin who is on the FBI's Most Wanted list was captured Monday in an army operation that government officials hailed as a major blow against drug trafficking in this Andean country.