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06SANTODOMINGO2127
2006-06-28 14:33:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Santo Domingo
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DOMINICAN FUGITIVE JOSE ORTEGA DE LEON EXTRADITED

Tags:  CJAN CVIS KCRM SNAR DR 
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FM AMEMBASSY SANTO DOMINGO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5282
INFO RUEAWJA/DEPT OF JUSTICE WASHDC PRIORITY
RUCOWCV/CUSTOMS CARIBBEAN ATTACHE MIAMI FL PRIORITY
RUCNFB/FBI WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
RUEAHLC/HOMELAND SECURITY CENTER WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
RUEAHLC/HQS DHS WASHDC PRIORITY
UNCLAS SANTO DOMINGO 002127 

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR WHA/CAR DSEARBY, L/LEI FOR TORRES AND MUELLER
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FOR CRIM/OIA ORJALES AND ESTABROOK
US MARSHALS SERVICE PLEASE PASS TO JIM SCHIELD
DEA FOR OF,OFI,DO,DCO

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CJAN CVIS KCRM SNAR DR
SUBJECT: DOMINICAN FUGITIVE JOSE ORTEGA DE LEON EXTRADITED
TO THE U.S.

REF: A. 2005 STATE 114065

B. 2005 STATE 91614

UNCLAS SANTO DOMINGO 002127

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR WHA/CAR DSEARBY, L/LEI FOR TORRES AND MUELLER
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FOR CRIM/OIA ORJALES AND ESTABROOK
US MARSHALS SERVICE PLEASE PASS TO JIM SCHIELD
DEA FOR OF,OFI,DO,DCO

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CJAN CVIS KCRM SNAR DR
SUBJECT: DOMINICAN FUGITIVE JOSE ORTEGA DE LEON EXTRADITED
TO THE U.S.

REF: A. 2005 STATE 114065

B. 2005 STATE 91614


1. On June 22, 2006, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
(DEA) Special Agents returned Jose Ramon Ortega de Leon (aka
Chico) to Westchester, NY for trial before the U.S. District
Court for the Southern District of New York, where he is the
subject of superseding indictment number S7 04 CR 1353 (KMW),
filed March 15, 2005. As detailed in the indictment, Ortega
de Leon, a reputed member of the Paulino Castillo criminal
organization, participated in the importation of
multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine from the Dominican
Republic for distribution in the United States.


2. Following the 2005 issuance of a Dominican arrest warrant
based on a U.S. Government request for extradition, Ortega de
Leon was apprehended at Las Americans International Airport
on March 19, 2006, by officers of the Dominican National
Directorate for Drug Control's Fugitive Unit. Ortega de Leon
had been returning from a extended visit to Cuba at the time
of his arrest. Ortega de Leon challenged his extradition
before the Criminal Chamber of the Dominican Supreme Court on
a vaiety of grounds, but was ruled extraditable on Jun 16,

2006. His extradition was properly confirmd by presidential
decree on June 19, 2006.

3.Ortega de Leon is the 20th fugitive extradited to te
United States during FY-2006 and the 10th extrdited during
this calendar year.
HERTELL