Colombia Extradites Alleged Cocaine Capo to the U.S.

On October 30, 2001, Colombia extradited to the U.S. Alejandro Bernal, one of the major players in the movement of cocain into the U.S. Bernal led a group of drug traffickers and money launderers expert in smuggling cocaine through Central America and Mexico into the U.S. aboard fishing vessels inside shipping cartons. A U.S. district court in Fort Launderdale will try Bernal. The Colombian Government arrested Bernal in a series of raids in the fall of 1999 during Operation millennium. Bernal shipped cocaine in quantities of no less than one ton at a time. Shortly before Bernal?s surrender, Colombian President Andres Pastrana signed extradition papers after the Colombian Supreme Court approved.