FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Colombian national awaited extradition from South Florida to Virginia to face federal charges in a multi-million-dollar drug money laundering case, according to court records obtained by Local 10 News on Tuesday.
Andrelio Castano Rojas, 54, was booked into the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale over the weekend after his arrest by federal agents.
Federal prosecutors in Norfolk, Virginia accuse Castano Rojas of working with co-conspirators as part of an entity dubbed the “Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering Organization” to launder proceeds “from the sale of illegal drugs, which included cocaine” from cities in South Florida and across the country, including Sunrise; Boston; San Antonio; Anaheim, California and Richmond, Virginia…