WORLD IN BRIEF : COLOMBIA : Drug Lord’s Pilot Held for Extradition

The personal pilot of a top Colombian cocaine kingpin has been arrested and is being held for extradition to the United States, police in Bogota said. The pilot, Jorge de la Cuesta Marquez, is wanted in Florida on drug charges. He was identified as the pilot for Pablo Escobar, leader of the Medellin cocaine cartel. Meanwhile, nephews of two other Colombian drug traffickers were reported captured in Mexico City, where authorities broke up a ring that flew cocaine to Mexico on its way to Florida. The two arrested were Luis Alfredo Aguilar Castro, a nephew of Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, and Ricardo Isunza Ochoa, a nephew of Fabio Ochoa.