(CNN) -  The son of Suriname's president is facing drug charges
in New York federal court.  Panamanian authorities detained Dino
Bouterse at Tocumen International Airport outside Panama City
and handed him over to U.S. authorities, the Central American
nation's foreign ministry said Friday.  A federal grand jury
indictment alleges that Bouterse, 40, "caused a suitcase
containing 10 kilograms of cocaine to be transported from
Suriname into the Caribbean" in July.  Bouterse brandished an
anti-tank weapon during the alleged trafficking operation,
prosecutors said in a statement Friday.  He faces weapons and
drug trafficking conspiracy charges that carry a maximum
sentence of life in prison, prosecutors said.  In a statement
Friday, Suriname's foreign ministry acknowledged Bouterse's
detention but said the reasons for it were unclear.  He is the
son of Desi Bouterse, a former military strongman who was
elected president of the South American nation in 2010.  CNN did
not get an immediate response Saturday to messa