LA PAZ, Bolivia — A former Bolivian interior minister was deported late Wednesday from Florida to Bolivia, where authorities say he faces charges ranging from breach of duty for illegally importing weapons to crimes against humanity for overseeing a crackdown on protests in 2019 that caused dozens of deaths.

Arturo Murillo was freed from U.S. prison in June after serving four years in a money laundering case that accused him of taking $532,000 in bribes to help a Florida company win a lucrative contract to sell tear gas to his country's government.

Just days after Murillo's release from a Florida prison, he was rearrested and transferred to ICE custody in Miami, where he fought his deportation order for weeks, said a Bolivian diplomat in Washington who spoke on condition of anonymity bec

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