DOMINICAN FUGITIVE WILFREDO TORIBIO TO BE

UNCLAS SANTO DOMINGO 000887 SIPDIS SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR WHA/CAR SEARBY, 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 WILFREDO TORIBIO TO BE EXTRADITED TO THE UNITED STATES REF: 2006 STATE 191744 ¶1. On April 20, 2006, U.S. Marshals will return Wilfredo Antonio Toribio Reyes to the United States to stand trial in the State of New Jersey for multiple counts of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery, as detailed in indictment number 05-05-0558-I (filed May 2, 2005) and indictment number 05-06-0885-I (filed June 23, 2006). As laid out in the two indictments, Toribio served as the "driver" for a gang of individuals involved in armed robberies in the Clifton and Patterson, New Jersey areas. ¶2. Following the issuance of a Dominican arrest warrant based on a November 29, 2006, U.S. Government request for extradition, Toribio was apprehended April 13, 2007, by officers of the Dominican National Directorate for Drug Control's Fugitive Unit (DNCD). Toribio made a knowing, voluntary, and intelligent waiver of his right to challenge his extradition and testified to such before the Criminal Chamber of the Dominican Supreme Court on April 16, 2007. ¶3. The return of Toribio marks the 16th Dominican-national fugitive returned through or in lieu of extradition proceedings during CY-2007 (the 7th for FY-2007). HERTELL