The Nation - News from Feb. 15, 1987

Suspected drug overlord Carlos Lehder was secretly moved for security reasons to another jail, where he was expected to complete arrangements for private defense attorneys whose bill could top $2 million. Lehder’s interim attorney would not say exactly where his client was but indicated it could be outside Florida, though within the United States. Lehder, 37, pleaded not guilty Monday to a federal indictment filed in Jacksonville that charges him with smuggling 4.4 tons of cocaine into the United States. A separate indictment from Miami charges him with heading a ring that supplied 80% of the cocaine used in the country.