DOMINICAN FUGITIVE ARISMENDY TAVERAS EXTRADITED TO

UNCLAS SANTO DOMINGO 004777 SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR WHA/CAR SEARBY, L/LEI FOR TAYLOR AND MUELLER DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FOR CRIM/OIA MAZUREK AND ORJALES US MARSHAL SERVICE PLEASE PASS TO CHRIS DUDLEY DEA FOR OF,OFI,DO,DCO E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: CJAN DR KCRM SNAR SUBJECT: DOMINICAN FUGITIVE ARISMENDY TAVERAS EXTRADITED TO U.S. ¶1. On October 21, 2005, U.S. Marshals returned Arismendy Taveras to the United States for trial in the US District Court for the Southern District Court of New York, where he is the subject of superseding federal indictment S1 04-CR-808, charging multiple counts of conspiracy to import and distribute multi-hundred kilogram quantities of both cocaine and heroin from South America and the Dominican Republic to New York City. ¶2. Following the issuance of a Dominican arrest warrant based on a US Government request for extradition, Taveras was apprehended on June 10, 2005 by officers of the Dominican National Directorate for Drug Control. Taveras was judged extraditable by the Criminal Chamber of the Dominican Supreme Court on September 2, 2005. Extradition of Taveras was approved by presidential decree on September 20, 2005. ¶2. Taveras is the 40th fugitive extradited to the United States during the second administration of President Leonel Fernandez. He is the 27th fugitive extradited from the Dominican Republic to the United States in 2005. KUBISKE