Officials in South America say a Nova Scotia man accused of murder was allegedly one of the kingpins of a Colombian drug cartel before he was arrested on a Venezuelan beach and extradited back to Canada. Steven Douglas Skinner is shown after being arrested in Playa El Yaque, on Margarita Island in Venezuela, in police handout photo posted on Twitter by Cuerpo de Investigaciones Cientificas, Penales y Criminalisticas (CICPC) director Douglas Rico. They allegedly purchased the drug mules passports, airline tickets and clothing as well as paid for expenses abroad, promising a bonus payment when they returned to Colombia. Article Continued BelowSkinner was arrested by Venezuelan law enforcement on Margarita Island in 2016, and was extradited to Canada the following year to face second-degree murder charges in the 2011 death of Stacey Adams in Nova Scotia. Read more: Ex-MMA fighter extradited from Venezuela to face murder charge in Nova ScotiaRead more about:

Source: thestar September 28, 2018 18:56 UTC