Identifier
Created
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05SANTODOMINGO5353
2005-12-12 17:50:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Santo Domingo
Cable title:  

DOMINICAN FUGITIVE JOSE ROBERTO MATEO RIVERA

Tags:  CJAN DR KCRM SNAR 
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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.


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