DOMINICAN REPUBLIC EXTRADITES NINE FUGITIVES

UNCLAS SANTO DOMINGO 007095 SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR WHA/CAR (MCISAAC),L/LEI (W. FUENTES, TAYLOR) JUSTICE FOR CRIM/OIA J. MAZUREK AND R. GOLDMAN U.S. MARSHAL SERVICE PLEASE PASS TO C. DUDLEY E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: CJAN KCRM KFRD PINR SNAR DR SUBJECT: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC EXTRADITES NINE FUGITIVES ¶1. On December 2, 2003, nine fugitives were extradited from the Dominican Republic in the company of U.S. Marshals. All fugitives were flown to San Juan, Puerto Rico. From there, they will be delivered to the jurisdictions which have issued warrants for their arrests. The following list of fugitives were extradited: a. Gustavo Reynoso: wanted to stand trial in the Federal District of Massachusetts on narcotics charges. b. Francisco Javier Hernandez Meran a/k/a Guillermo Pina: escaped from the Regional Prison on Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, wanted to serve a sentence imposed for conviction of murder and narcotics related offenses. c. Edwin Estevez: wanted to stand trial on federal narcotics charges in the Southern District of New York. d. Rafael Perez Luna: wanted to stand trial on federal narcotics charges in the Southern District of New York. e. Sixto Perez: wanted to stand trial on a federal narcotics offense in the Middle District of Florida. f. Marcial Rodriguez Trinidad: wanted to stand trial on federal narcotics charges in the District of Puerto Rico. g. Francisco Castillo: wanted to serve sentences in two narcotics related cases in two counties in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. h. Luis Felipe Nunez: wanted to stand trial on federal narcotics charges in the Middle District of Florida. i. Miguel Ramon DeOleo: wanted to stand trial on federal narcotics charges in the Southern District of Texas. ¶2. These cases are the ninth through seventeenth extraditions by the Dominican Republic in 2003, and the forty-fourth through fifty-second under the administration of President Mejia. HERTELL