Estonia Extradites to the U.S. former Member of Polish Armed Forces on Narcotics Charges

 On April 17, 2014, Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michele M. Leonhart, the Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced that Slawomir Soborski was extradited from Estonia where he had been arrested for conspiracy to import cocaine into the U.S. and conspiracy to distribute cocaine on board an aircraft.  Soborski’s co-defendants, Joseph Manual Hunter, Timothy Vamvakias, and Dennis Gogel were previously arrested in Thailand (Hunter and Liberia (Vamvakias and Gogel) and brought to the U.S. in September 2013.  Co-defendant Michael Filter was previously arrested in Estonia September 2013 and is pending extradition to the U.S.[1]