US embassy cable - 05SANTODOMINGO5068

UNCLAS SANTO DOMINGO 005068 
 
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 FUGITIVES NIN TERRERO, CUEVAS NIN, AND 
GASTON RAMOS EXTRADITED TO U.S. 
 
 
 1. On November 15, 2005, US law enforcement officials 
returned alleged Paulino Castillo gang members Lidio Arturo 
Nin Terrero and Tirso Cuevas Nin, as well as alleged Hidalgo 
gang member Cristian de Jesus Gaston Ramos, to the Southern 
District of New York for trial based on a variety of federal 
indictments charging narcotics related offenses and, in the 
case of Gaston Ramos, murder and conspiracy to commit murder. 
 Indictment number S6 04 CR-1352 (KMW) and S6 04 CR-1353 
(KMW) charged Nin Terrero and Cuevas Nin respectively with 
both conspiracy to import cocaine and distribution of cocaine 
with the intent to import into the United States.  Indictment 
S4 02-CR-401 (KMW) charged Gaston Ramos with conspiracy to 
commit murder, murder, and both conspiracy to distribute and 
possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine, as 
well as money laundering. 
 
2. Following the issuance of a Dominican arrest warrants 
based on USG requests for extradition, the fugitives were 
apprehended by officers of the Dominican National Directorate 
for Drug Control: Nin Terrero and Cuevas Nin on June 11, 
2005; Gaston Ramos on July 17, 2005.  All were ultimately 
found extraditable by the Criminal Chamber of the Dominican 
Supreme Court after multiple appeals.  Extradition was then 
approved in separate presidential decrees. 
 
3. With these extraditions, 44 fugitives have now been 
returned to the United States during the second 
administration of President Leonel Fernandez.  Thirty-one 
(31) fugitives have now been extradited to the United States 
in this calendar year. 
HERTELL