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DATE: THURSDAY, March 29, 1990                   TAG: 9003290700
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-11   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: BOGOTA, COLOMBIA                                LENGTH: Short


COLOMBIA SENDS 15TH DRUG SUSPECT TO U.S.

The government has extradited its 15th drug suspect to the United States since its drug war began seven months ago, and agents seized hundreds of pounds of cocaine in a raid on a drug lab, officials said.

Fernando Gutierrez Perez, 29, was put on a plane bound for the United States early Wednesday, said Diva Rojas, a spokeswoman for the secret police. He was wanted in Arizona on cocaine-trafficking and money-laundering charges.

The extradition and the raid came amid allegations the government was easing its fight with drug traffickers, whose bombings and other attacks since August have left more than 200 people dead.

-Associated Press



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