NEW YORK (AP) -- A man President Bush has called a "drug kingpin" for leading a cocaine-trafficking ring based in Central America has been captured.
Federal prosecutors say Jorge Mario Paredes-Cordova, a Guatemalan national, was arrested Thursday in Honduras. He was brought to the United States and had his first court appearance Friday before a federal judge in Miami.
Paredes-Cordova, who authorities say is 42 and weighs more than 300 pounds, had been on the U.S. government's list of most wanted narcotics fugitives.
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