FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Colombian national awaited extradition from South Florida to Virginia to face federal charges in a multi-million-dollar drug money laundering case, according to court records obtained by Local 10 News on Tuesday.
Andrelio Castano Rojas, 54, was booked into the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale over the weekend after his arrest by federal agents.
Federal prosecutors in Norfolk, Virginia accuse Castano Rojas of working with co-conspirators as part of an entity dubbed the “Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering Organization” to launder proceeds “from the sale of illegal drugs, which included cocaine” from cities in South Florida and across the country, including Sunrise; Boston; San Antonio; Anaheim, California and Richmond, Virginia.
Undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agents posing as money launderers ended up infiltrating the organization, according to a federal grand jury indictment handed down on Oct. 8, 2025 and filed publicly on Monday.
The indictment states that the organization “accepted what are known as ‘money contracts’ to arrange for the drug trafficking proceeds” to be delivered by couriers and deposited in bank accounts across the U.S., then wire transferred to various businesses “to conceal their nature, location, source, ownership and control.”
Investigators said Castano Rojas used electronics companies ― including at least two that he owned ― and purchases to conceal the drug money as part of a scheme that ran from at least 2018 through 2025.
According to the indictment, Castano Rojas owned two electronics companies, Administracion Y Servicios G Asociados SAS LLC and Acron Technology LLC, both registered to a home in Palmetto Bay.
Each was described in the indictment as a “computer parts import/export company.”
Investigators said Castano Rojas funneled at least $2 million through those companies and then “arranged” for an unnamed electronics firm in Doral “to receive drug trafficking proceeds for the purchase of consumer electronics that were then shipped to and sold” in the Colombian capital of Bogota.
That Doral company received at least $1.8 million in cash deliveries from 2021 to 2025, according to the indictment.
The indictment lists a web of transactions involving Castano Rojas and various banks.
He’s now facing four money laundering charges in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, as well as one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Agents arrested him Sunday and as of Tuesday, Castano Rojas remained in the Broward Sheriff’s Office Main Jail facility, being held on behalf of the U.S. Marshals Service. It wasn’t immediately clear when he would be extradited to Virginia.
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