A high-level member of a global drug ring has been extradited to Southern California on charges that he conspired to transport cocaine worth hundreds of millions of dollars from South America to Mexico for eventual sale in the United States. In addition to the extradition of Victor Hugo Cuellar-Silva the arrests of co-defendants in California and Massachusetts, six other defendants are pending extradition after being previously taken into custody in Colombia and Thailand. (INT)

Story Date: September 19, 2018