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FORMER COLOMBIAN NAVAL PETTY OFFICER EXTRADITED TO UNITED STATES FOR SELLING NAVAL POSITIONING CHARTS TO COCAINE TRAFFICKERS
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US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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October 3, 2008
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The U.S. Department of Justice's Drug Enforcement Administration's New York field office issued the following press release:
JOHN P. GILBRIDE, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Office of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA") and MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the extradition of OTONIEL RICARDO CABARCAS AVENDANO on charges stemming from a conspiracy to sell navigation charts purporting to detail the locations of Colombian and United States Naval and Coast Guard vessels to narcotics importers seeking to avoid interdiction by law enforcement on the high seas.
AVENDANO, 45, who arrived in New York last ...