A New York federal court had the authority to try a man accused of trafficking drugs on a plane that never reached U.S. airspace, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled, rejecting a challenge to the extraterritorial application of federal narcotics laws.
Convicted drug dealer Nicolas Epskamp, a citizen of the Netherlands, argued that the Southern District lacked jurisdiction to try him for a scheme to transport cocaine from the Dominican Republic to Belgium on a U.S.-registered plane.
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