BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia extradited a paramilitary warlord to the United States yesterday for trial on drug charges, accusing him of violating a peace pact by selling drugs and commanding illegal militia fighters from prison.

A grim-faced Carlos Mario Jimenez was escorted onto a Super King 350 plane in a Bogota airport hangar shortly after midnight – a scene shown in a police video.

The extradition sends a note to other jailed warlords that they too could be shipped abroad to face stiffer prison sentences if they revert to crime. (AP)

Cop on sex charge

PORT-OF-SPAIN – Detective Corporal Stephen Jerome of the Arouca Police Station was yesterday granted bail in the sum of TT$75 000, after he appeared in the Arima Magistrates' Court charged with two counts of rape.

He is accused of raping a 35-year-old American nursing assistant at the Arouca station around 12.30 p.m. on Sunday.

(Trinidad Express)

Raped and killed

PORT-OF-SPAIN – A young woman who went to the city to live and work was killed by a man who raped her and then stabbed her to death.

When police found 23-year-old Geraldine Smith at noon yesterday, the killer's knife was still stuck in her throat.

He had also punctured her head, chest and eye.

The killing occurred in an apartment at Inverness Street, Cocoyea.(Trinidad Express)