Colombia Extradites Suspected Drug Lord to the U.S.

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Saturday, January 1, 2000
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
16
Issue: 
1
556
Abstract: 
On November 21, 1999, Colombia extradited a suspected drug lord to the U.S., the first extradition of a Colombian national to the U.S. since 1990, amid new terrorist incidents apparently directed against such extradition. Jaime Orlando Lara, 30, is the first of 42 drug suspects now detained in Colombian jails awaiting transfer to the U.S. Wearing handcuffs and looking grim, Lara Nausa was put on a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration aircraft, a twin-engine Cessna, to Fort Lauderdale and then New York, where he has been indicted on charges filed in October 1998 that his alleged narcotics ring shipped about 20 pounds of pure heroin a week to the U.S. through Florida. He is wanted in Florida on similar charges…[more]