The World - News from Sept. 18, 1989
Five South Americans arrested in Canada last week were planning to help two accused Colombian drug smugglers break out of jail in Fredericton, New Brunswick, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Inspector Al Hutchinson said the men will appear in court early this week to be charged. Four of the men were seized Wednesday in the Atlantic province, along with an arsenal of weapons. The fifth was caught Thursday in Saint John, New Brunswick. Hutchinson said the men were trying to free two Colombians who were arrested in April after police seized 1,100 pounds of cocaine stashed in a small airplane that crash-landed at a private airstrip near Fredericton.
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