Pubdate: Sat, 10 Feb 2001
Source: New York Times (NY)
Section: National News Briefs
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ANTIDRUG OFFICIAL'S SON IS GUILTY IN HEROIN CASE

MIAMI, Feb. 9 (AP) — The teenage son of a top Colombian antidrug official 
has been sentenced to nearly six years in a United States prison for trying 
to smuggle heroin.

The youth, Andres Felipe Lafaurie Restrepo, 19, pleaded guilty and was 
sentenced on Jan. 24.

Mr. Lafaurie's mother, Maria Restrepo, heads the Colombian agency that 
helps create new livelihoods for farmers who agree to stop growing coca and 
poppy plants used to make cocaine and heroin.

Mr. Lafaurie arrived at the Miami airport on a Nov. 22 flight from Colombia 
with 7.3 pounds of heroin taped to his legs.
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