Colombia's top drug lord extradited to US

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Colombia's top drug lord is extradited to the United States: wearing body armor and being escorted by soldiers at gunpoint.
According to the ABC report, on May 4, local time, Colombia's number one drug lord, Deiro Antonio Ursuga, was extradited to the United States. Ursuga, who made her first appearance in federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday after her arrival in New York, was charged with controlling the production, purchase and transshipment of tons of cocaine shipped to the United States from Colombia and Mexico over the years, according to court records, the ABC said. However, he pleaded not guilty to the charges, the report said. Ursuga is currently being held at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Facility in New York City.

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