Operation Just Cause: the Invasion of Panama, December 1989

Same here. Served in both operations with 1/9 out of Ft. Ord 7th ID Light.

In 1988, Noriega was indicted by the United States on drug trafficking charges in Miami, Florida. During the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama, he was removed from power, captured, detained as a prisoner of war, and flown to the United States. Noriega was tried on eight counts of drug trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering in April 1992. On September 16, 1992, he was sentenced to 40 years in prison (which was later reduced to 30 years).

Noriega's U.S. prison sentence ended in September 2007;[8] pending the outcome of extradition requests by both Panama and France, for convictions in absentia for murder in 1995 and money laundering in 1999. France was granted its extradition request in April 2010. He arrived in Paris on April 27, 2010,[9] and after the re-trial that is a rule in France after any in absentia sentence, he was found guilty and sentenced to seven years in jail in July 2010.[10] A conditional release was granted on September 23, 2011, for Noriega to be extradited to serve 20 years in Panama. He returned to Panama on December 11, 2011. He went straight to a jail cell,,, BUT Panama law has considerations for those over 70, or at risk in the prison system due to health.. It allows for the inmate to be transferred to "House Arrest" ... As of July 2015 he was still in the prison, but had requested to be transferred to House Arrest. I really dont know nor can I find a trusted article that shows if that happened or not.