US embassy cable - 05SANTODOMINGO4777

UNCLAS SANTO DOMINGO 004777 
 
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, Extraditions 
SUBJECT: DOMINICAN FUGITIVE ARISMENDY TAVERAS EXTRADITED TO 
U.S. 
 
 
 1. On October 21, 2005, U.S. Marshals returned Arismendy 
Taveras to the United States for trial in the US District 
Court for the Southern District Court of New York, where he 
is the subject of superseding federal indictment S1 
04-CR-808, charging multiple counts of conspiracy to import 
and distribute multi-hundred kilogram quantities of both 
cocaine and heroin from South America and the Dominican 
Republic to New York City. 
 
2. Following the issuance of a Dominican arrest warrant based 
on a US Government request for extradition, Taveras was 
apprehended on June 10, 2005 by officers of the Dominican 
National Directorate for Drug Control.  Taveras was judged 
extraditable by the Criminal Chamber of the Dominican Supreme 
Court on September 2, 2005.  Extradition of Taveras was 
approved by presidential decree on September 20, 2005. 
 
2. Taveras is the 40th fugitive extradited to the United 
States during the second administration of President Leonel 
Fernandez.  He is the 27th fugitive extradited from the 
Dominican Republic to the United States in 2005. 
KUBISKE