Latino drug lord who skulked in Sandton for 14 years is nabbed at last

Suspected international cocaine baron Nelson Pablo Yester-Garrido, who hid out in SA under a pseudonym for more than a decade, has been extradited to the US.

This is the man who famously once tried to buy a Russian submarine for a Colombian drug cartel for their global smuggling operations, according to a US justice department notice.

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