YES HE HAVE GIRLFRIEND in BOGOTA COLOMBIA,, AND HE WAS IN A CONFERENCE CHECK FINE.........

"Apparently he had only been to Bogota to give a speech to the newspaper El Tiempo and to visit his girlfriend. Use of the word 'girlfriend' in a former hacker's alibi meant that coppers were instantly suspicious."

Haha, you guys are a riot!

How could anyone suspect poor little Mitnick?

But then again, suspect him of running drugs? That's funny.

But that is still pretty good. He would have had it worse.

A friend of mine visited Poland, she was to meet her bf there since he was already there.
She was singled out, probably because she was black, or attractive or both.

She was stripped of her clothes and underwent an AKA "full cavity search". For no good reason.

She was detained 9 hours & had to get lawyer, in a foreign country, at 3am to help her out. A lawyer that could barely speak English. What was the lawyer for? to bail her out of jail!
(Yes, she had to pay for that.)

In short, Mitnick got off cheap.

Nick, you are one funny guy... 

"security" is of the highest importance donchaknow?

He's lucky! They only delayed him for 4 hours. In addition he had someone in the FBI to vouch for him and customs actually checked his alibi. 

Imagine the poor shmuck coming from some dodgy country like Columbia with all that computer gear, a criminal record, a terrorist designation and no friends in the FBI to help him or her out. They'd be getting their genitals flayed with a cheese grater in some CIA prison in less time than it took to write this comment.

Mitnick is still whining. Some things never change. Come to think of it that's probably why customs could only stand to hold him for 4 hours.