Pubdate: Thu, 04 May 2000 Source: Orange County Register (CA) Copyright: 2000 The Orange County Register Contact: P.O. Box 11626, Santa Ana, CA 92711 Fax: (714) 565-3657 Website: http://www.ocregister.com/ COLOMBIAN SUSPECT WON'T BE EXTRADITED Colombian attorney and anti-drug crusader Victor Tafur will not be extradited to his homeland to face drug-trafficking charges, a judge in Philadelphia ruled Wednesday. Tafur had been sought by Colombian authorities since September on charges he helped finance the largest cocaine shipment ever-seized in Colombia, a 7-ton cache intercepted in the Caribbean port of Cartagena in December 1998. But U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles Smith, who had expressed doubts about the government's case from the start, said prosecutors failed to show probable cause. - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D