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Colombian authorities detained Bogota to a Mexican, who is requested in extradition by a United States court, where he must appear for crimes related to drug trafficking and money launderingThe Prosecutor’s Office reported this Wednesday.
It is about Luis Angel Castanedawho is supposedly part of a transnational network of cocaine and fentanyl trafficking from Colombia to the United States, where the substances were sold in Detroit and other cities in Michigan.
Members of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) of the Prosecutor’s Office, together with Migration Colombia and the Drug Control Administration (DEA), located the foreigner at the El Dorado airport, where the alarm went off. international arrest warrant against him.
A Michigan district court is looking for him for conspiracy to commit a crime, drug trafficking and money launderingaccording to the information provided in a statement by the Prosecutor’s Office.
This foreign citizen was captured at the El Dorado International Airport, in #Bogota. He is required by US justice to answer charges related to conspiracy to commit a crime, drug trafficking and money laundering.
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— Colombian Prosecutor’s Office (@FiscaliaCol) October 9, 2024
According to the elements gathered by the investigation, Castañeda frequently traveled to Colombia, where he went to La Guajira and Norte de Santander, in the northeast of the country, “to close negotiations related to the purchase and shipment of narcotics by sea and air. “.
​Already diplomatic procedures are progressing and legal to formalize the extradition request and proceed to deliver it to the United States.
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