Court grants arrest warrant for drug trafficker repatriated from Philippines

A local court on Friday issued an arrest warrant for a notorious drug trafficker repatriated from the Philippines earlier this week. The Uijeongbu District Court granted the arrest warrant for Park Wang-yeol, citing risk of flight and destruction of evidence. Facing charges of smuggling methamphetamine and other drugs into the country, he arrived in South Korea in handcuffs on Wednesday and was immediately taken into police custody in a temporary repatriation under an extradition treaty between

By The Korea Herald