Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06SANTODOMINGO2608
2006-08-14 17:01:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Santo Domingo
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DOMINICAN FUGITIVES BALBI AND GONZALEZ EXTRADITED

Tags:  CJAN CVIS KCRM SNAR DR 
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UNCLAS SANTO DOMINGO 002608 

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR WHA/CAR LUFTIG, 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 FUGITIVES BALBI AND GONZALEZ EXTRADITED
TO THE U.S.


UNCLAS SANTO DOMINGO 002608

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR WHA/CAR LUFTIG, 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 FUGITIVES BALBI AND GONZALEZ EXTRADITED
TO THE U.S.



1. On July 12, 2006, U.S. Marshals returned Pedro Antonio
Balbi to the United States for trial in the District Court
for Passaic County, New Jersey, where he is the subject of
indictment number 05-08-1167(I),filed August 18, 2005. As
detailed in the indictment, Balbi is alleged to have been the
leader of a criminal enterprise in which several individuals
maintained, packaged, stored, and delivered illegal narcotics.


2. On July 20, 2006, U.S. Marshals returned Yisbert Manuel
Gonzalez Lara (aka Armando Morales) to the United States for
trial in the Superior Court of Suffolk County, Massachusetts,
based on indictment number SUCR2004-11065, filed on December
10, 2004. The indictment charges Gonzalez with murder in the
first degree.


3. Both subjects made voluntary and knowing waivers of their
right to an extradition hearing before the Criminal Chamber
of the Dominican Supreme Court.


3. The return of Gonzalez marks the 15th extradition during
this calendar year (25 for FY-2006, 144 since 1988).
HERTELL