 Marshals Service agents and was immediately put on a plane to Tulsa, Oklahoma.His extradition brought to five the number of accused drug traffickers sent to the United States since President Virgilio Barco re-established extradition on August 18, 1989, in response to a string of assassinations attributed to the cocaine cartels.By the time he came to trial during April 1989, the prosecution charged that Abello had undergone plastic surgery to alter his appearance, had arranged numerous killings in Colombia, and had attempted to bribe the Colombian police who arrested him.