Warlord Mancuso is extradited back to Colombia after serving sentence in US

Former Colombian paramilitary leader, Salvatore Mancuso, centre, is met by immigration officials in Bogota (Colombian Immigration Agency via AP)

Colombian warlord Salvatore Mancuso was sent to his native country on Tuesday after serving a drug trafficking sentence in the United States and being denied several requests to be sent to Italy, where he also has citizenship.

Mancuso arrived in Bogota’s El Dorado Airport on a charter flight that also carried dozens of Colombians who were deported from the US after illegally crossing the southern border.