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Suriname president's son arrested on U.S. drug smuggling charges
Source: Reuters
Suriname president's son arrested on U.S. drug smuggling charges
By Lomi Kriel
PANAMA CITY | Fri Aug 30, 2013 5:57pm EDT
(Reuters) - A son of Suriname's president has been arrested in Panama and sent to New York to face charges of smuggling cocaine into the United States, U.S. authorities said on Friday.
An indictment against Dino Bouterse filed in a federal court in the Southern District of New York, alleges the 40-year-old imported more than five kilograms of cocaine into the United States between December 2011 and August 2013.
Bouterse was arrested at Panama's Tocumen International Airport on Thursday, authorities said.
He was arraigned on Friday in a Manhattan federal court for conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the United States and for carrying a firearm or destructive device - an anti-tank rocket launcher and pistols - during a drug-related crime.
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By Lomi Kriel
PANAMA CITY | Fri Aug 30, 2013 5:57pm EDT
(Reuters) - A son of Suriname's president has been arrested in Panama and sent to New York to face charges of smuggling cocaine into the United States, U.S. authorities said on Friday.
An indictment against Dino Bouterse filed in a federal court in the Southern District of New York, alleges the 40-year-old imported more than five kilograms of cocaine into the United States between December 2011 and August 2013.
Bouterse was arrested at Panama's Tocumen International Airport on Thursday, authorities said.
He was arraigned on Friday in a Manhattan federal court for conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the United States and for carrying a firearm or destructive device - an anti-tank rocket launcher and pistols - during a drug-related crime.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/30/us-panama-suriname-idUSBRE97T0ZI20130830
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Anti-tank rocket launcher.
"D'ya want a holster for that?"[/center]