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Costa Rican ex-Supreme Court judge sent to US in first-ever national extradition
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SAN JOSE, March 20 - Costa Rica on Friday extradited former top judge and security minister Celso Gamboa to the United States, where he is wanted on charges of international drug trafficking, marking the Central American nation's first-ever extradition of its own nationals.