News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 04, 2010
Contact: Mike Turner
Number: 720-895-4214

Mexico Extradites Oscar Arriola to Face Drug Trafficking Charges
in Colorado

MAR 04 -- DENVER -- Yesterday Mexico extradited drug kingpin Oscar Arriola to Colorado to face drug charges, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey D. Sweetin and U.S. Attorney David Gaouette announced. Arriola was flown in a DEA plane from Mexico to El Paso, Texas, and from there to Denver, Colorado. He is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Colorado at 2:00 p.m. today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Craig B. Shaffer.

Oscar Arriola was indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Colorado on December 16, 2003. On June 2, 2005, Oscar Arriola, his brother Miguel Arriola, and the Arriola organization were designated through the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, often referred to as the “Drug Kingpin Act.â€