Colombian Drug Suspect Indicted in Three States Is Extradited to U.S.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Colombian businessman under cocaine indictments in Florida, California and Illinois was handed over to U.S. authorities in Bogota and flown here Saturday, authorities said.

Guillermo Juan Delgado Bueno, 54, a hotel owner and investor in Colombia, was arrested there Sept. 14, and the U.S. Justice Department asked for his extradition to face longstanding charges, beginning with a Florida indictment.

Delgado Bueno is the sixth Colombian turned over to U.S. authorities and extradited since August, when President Virgilio Barco Vargas announced a stepped-up war on drugs and an easing of a ban on extradition after the assassination of a leading presidential candidate.

The U.S. charges against Delgado Bueno are:

--A February, 1983, indictment by a federal grand jury in San Francisco on charges of importing cocaine, conspiring to import cocaine and with distribution of the drug.

--A September, 1985, indictment against Delgado Bueno, under the alias of Willie Bueno, by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Illinois on charges of conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute and with conspiracy to distribute.

--An October, 1985, indictment issued in Gainesville, Fla., charging him with conspiring with 17 other people from 1980 to 1985 to import cocaine into the United States.