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Spanish police said Tuesday they have arrested in Madrid a Colombian drug trafficker who is wanted in the United States under an international arrest warrant.
German Gonzalo Sanchez Rey is wanted in connection with a shipment of over 700 kilos (1,500 pounds) of cocaine that was intercepted from a boat in international waters in the Caribbean by the US Coast Guard in 2009, Spanish police said in a statement.
The authorities did not say when Sanchez Rey, also known as “Coleta” or “Ponytail”, was detained but a police spokeswoman said he had led “the routine life of a millionaire” in the Spanish capital.
Spanish police said they received the aid of Interpol on the operation.