Overseas Network, May 6th. On the 4th local time, Colombia's top drug lord, Deiro Antonio Ursuga, was extradited to New York, the United States, to face multiple criminal charges related to drug smuggling.
The extradition video released by ABC and other US media on the 5th showed that Ursuga, wearing a helmet and body armor, was transported to a military airport in Colombia surrounded by a large number of soldiers, and then took a small plane to fly To New York JFK Airport.
U.S. media said that Usuga had a relaxed expression during the entire process of being transported, and nothing special happened during the period.
On the 5th, Colombian President Duque posted a number of pictures of Ussuga's extradition on social media, with the caption that Ussuga was a murderer of social leaders and policemen, a criminal who killed boys, girls and teenagers. He will continue to cooperate with Colombia's investigation in the United States, and will return to Colombia to "pay the price for his crimes" once his sentence in the United States is completed.
After arriving in New York, Ursuga briefly appeared in federal court in New York City on the 5th, during which he pleaded not guilty to charges including international participation in the manufacture and distribution of cocaine.
A court-ordered detention, he is currently being held at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Facility in New York City.
Usuga, alias "Otonier", was the leader of Colombia's largest drug gang, the Gulf Family, and was arrested in October 2021 during a large-scale military operation in the northwest of the country.
Usuga was indicted in the United States in 2009.
The United States accused Usuga and the "Gulf family" of illegally shipping at least 73 tons of cocaine into the United States between 2003 and 2012.
(Overseas Net Yao Kaihong)