Jefferson Marin Lopez (Chivirico) has been arrested and extradited to the US. According to press reports, he headed a Colombian network that exported large amounts of heroin and cocaine to the US using the DR as a transshipment point. He faces criminal charges in New York, according to National Drug Control Department (DNCD) chief, Major General Gilberto Delgado Valdez. As reported in El Dia, DNCD spokesman Roberto Lebron said that Marin Lopez belonged to a group of 28 individuals responsible for 85% of the cocaine shipped to the US via Venezuela and the DR.

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