BOND SET FOR SON OF COLOMBIAN ANTI-DRUG OFFICIAL MIAMI -- (AP) -- The teen-age son of a top Colombian anti-drug official must post $250,000 bond before he can be released on charges he smuggled heroin into the United States, a judge ruled today. U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Palermo said the family of Andres Lafourie Restrepo will be required to prove the bond money, if raised, did not come from crime profits, a routine condition in U.S. drug cases. Restrepo, 19, is charged with conspiracy to import heroin for allegedly arriving last month at Miami International Airport on a flight from Colombia with 7.3 pounds of heroin taped to his calves. Outside court, defense attorney Irwin Lichter, said, ``I've got tremendous pressures on me not to say anything to the press.'' Restrepo's alleged accomplice, Juan Pablo Mejia, 18, agreed earlier to the same $250,000 bond requirement. Restrepo's mother, Maria Restrepo, heads the agency known by its Spanish acronym PLANTE, which helps create new livelihoods for farmers who agree to stop growing coca and poppy plants used to make cocaine and heroin. After her son's arrest, Maria Restrepo pledged to keep her post and urged young Colombians to seek honest work. She said her son appeared to have been caught like other ``mules,'' the slang term for drug carriers who carry hidden stashes of drugs out of Colombia in return for promised payments in the thousands of dollars.
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