NEW YORK: The former navy chief of Guinea-Bissau was ordered detained in New York on Friday after his arrest on charges that he was part of an international cocaine trafficking plot, officials said.
A spokesman for the Manhattan federal prosecutor's office told AFP that Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto and two alleged co-conspirators "were all detained" after their initial appearance in federal court. No pleas were entered, the spokesman said.
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