Colombia extradites five more drug traffickers to US
The Colombian government said Wednesday that it has extradited five Colombians to the United States as they were charged with involvement in drug-trafficking in that country.

The five people were captured by Colombian police in 2004, the government said.

Earlier, the Colombian government had already sent drug pushers Jairo Aparicio Lenis, head of the Norte del Valle cartel operating in southwest Colombia, and Rodolfo Antonio Abello Lazcano, leader of the Costa cartel operating in the Colombian Caribbean region, to the United States.

After President Alvaro Uribe took office in August 2002, 320 Colombians have been extradited, mostly to the United States due to crimes related to drug-trafficking and money laundering.