DOMINICAN FUGITIVE JOSE ROBERTO MATEO RIVERA

UNCLAS SANTO DOMINGO 005353 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 JOSE ROBERTO MATEO RIVERA EXTRADITED TO U.S. ¶1. On December 1, 2005, U.S. Marshals returned Jose Roberto Mateo Rivera to the United States for sentencing in the US District Court for the Eastern District Court of New York, where he had previously plead guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine as charged in federal indictment CR-03-157. ¶2. Following the June 22, 2005 issuance of a Dominican arrest warrant based on a U.S. Government request for extradition, Mateo was apprehended on July 13, 2005 by officers of the Dominican National Directorate for Drug Control. Mateo was judged extraditable by the Criminal Chamber of the Dominican Supreme Court on October 11, 2005. Extradition of Mateo was approved by presidential decree on November 2, 2005. ¶3. Mateo is the 45th fugitive extradited to the United States during the second administration of President Leonel Fernandez. He is the 32nd fugitive extradited from the Dominican Republic to the United States in 2005. HERTELL