Colombia Extradites Drug Trafficker to U.S.
NEW YORK — A convicted Colombian cocaine trafficker released by mistake before his 1984 federal trial was extradited to the United States on Sunday for sentencing, U.S. marshals said.
Victor Eduardo Mera-Mosquera, 36, was handed over to marshals by the Colombian government on Saturday and flown from Bogota to New York.
Mera-Mosquera is the 11th suspected or convicted drug trafficker extradited from Colombia to the United States under an anti-drug program initiated by Colombian President Virgilio Barco Vargas last August. After Mera-Mosquera’s release in 1984, he was tried and convicted in absentia.
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