Nation IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Stowaway to Be Sent Home to Colombia
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A Colombian teen-ager who said he stowed away to Miami in the wheel well of a cargo jet will be sent back to his homeland, U.S. immigration officials said. Juan Carlos Guzman, 16, arrived June 4 aboard an Arca Airlines DC-8 jet, saying he took the three-hour trip from Cali tucked inside the plane’s landing-gear wheel well. Walter Cadman, Miami director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said Guzman lied about his identity, claiming to be a 13-year-old orphan.
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