Identifier
Created
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03SANTODOMINGO6424
2003-11-07 15:08:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Santo Domingo
Cable title:  

GODR EXTRADITES TWO FUGITIVES (TEJADA, RODOLFO AND

Tags:  CJAN KCRM KFRD PINR SNAR DR 
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UNCLAS SANTO DOMINGO 006424 

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR WHA/CAR (MCISAAC),L/LEI (W FUENTES, GUILANI
AND SULLIVAN)
JUSTICE FRO CRIM/OIA J. MAZUREK AND R. GOLDMAN
US MARSHAL SERVICE PLEASE PASS TO C. DUDLEY

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CJAN KCRM KFRD PINR SNAR DR
SUBJECT: GODR EXTRADITES TWO FUGITIVES (TEJADA, RODOLFO AND
ESTEVEZ, FRANCISCO JOSE)

REF: A. 02 STATE 097980


B. 01 STATE 187181

UNCLAS SANTO DOMINGO 006424

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR WHA/CAR (MCISAAC),L/LEI (W FUENTES, GUILANI
AND SULLIVAN)
JUSTICE FRO CRIM/OIA J. MAZUREK AND R. GOLDMAN
US MARSHAL SERVICE PLEASE PASS TO C. DUDLEY

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CJAN KCRM KFRD PINR SNAR DR
SUBJECT: GODR EXTRADITES TWO FUGITIVES (TEJADA, RODOLFO AND
ESTEVEZ, FRANCISCO JOSE)

REF: A. 02 STATE 097980


B. 01 STATE 187181


1. On November 4, 2003, Rodolfo Tejada and Francisco Jose
Estevez were extradited from the Dominican Republic in the
company of US Marshals. Tejada is wanted to stand trial on
federal narcotics charges. Upon arrival on a flight from
Santo Domingo to Miami International Airport, U.S. Department
of Homeland Security Officials (then Customs) searched
Tejada's bag and found 5,700 MDMA tablets hidden in two
compact disc portfolios. Mr. Tejada was arrested, failed to
appear at trial and fled to the Dominican Republic.
Francisco Jose Estevez pleaded guilty to federal narcotics
charges on July 19, 2001, in the Eastern District of New
York. He violated the terms of his bail by traveling to the
Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic's National Drug
Control Directorate (DNCD),working with US Marshals and DEA,
arrested Tejada in April 2003, and Estevez in June 2003.


2. These are the seventh and eighth extraditions by the
Dominican Republic in 2003, and the forty-second and
forty-third under the administration of President Hipolito
Mejia.
HERTELL