2018News

Attorney General requests extradition of three Colombian pilots accused of drug trafficking

Juan Andrade / Listín Diario

The Attorney General Office (PGR) announced it has submitted to the Colombian government a request for the extradition of three aviation pilots from Colombia that are accused in the Dominican Republic of drug trafficking. The three pilots were recently arrested in Colombia. They are accused of being responsible for the “irregular landing” of an airplane in October 2017 at the La Romana International Airport. 625 kilos of narcotics were found on board.

The three men were identified as Luis Alberto Clavijo, Daniel Guillermo Ocampo Bermúdez and Juan Felipe Andrade Torres.

Under arrest and investigation in the same drug trafficking case are former Air Force colonel Domingo Cruz Figuereo Heredia, former Army colonel Robert Antonio Ramírez Pimentel, and former Police lieutenant Andrés Lorenzo Castillo Padilla and former military recruit Emmanuel Cruz Espinal.

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11 October 2018