The World - News from March 26, 1986
A Madrid court ruled that Jorge Luis Ochoa, alleged to be Colombia’s top cocaine trafficker, will be extradited to Bogota on drug smuggling charges. Ochoa was arrested in Spain in November, 1984. U.S. authorities also sought his extradition on charges that he smuggled 3,300 pounds of cocaine from Colombia to the United States by way of Nicaragua. However, the Madrid court ruled that Colombia had the greater claim.
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