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.
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