May 26, 2012
KIMATV.com on May 25, 2012 released the following:
“By Tyler Slauson & Michael Spears
YAKIMA, Wash. — One of America’s Most Wanted is now back in Yakima. Police in Mexico captured Jose Ayala at the end of last year.
Ayala was wanted for murdering his girlfriend back in 2008 and was featured on America’s Most Wanted.
Part of the extradition agreement included a cap on his sentencing range if found guilty of second degree murder.
” When Mexico is going to release someone to the U.S. They can’t be looking at more than 25-years in prison, they’re not eligible for any death penalty cases. So that’s sort of the big cut off,’ said Deputy U.S. Marshal Jeff Marty.
Ayala made his first court appearance in Yakima Friday.
YAKIMA POLICE NEWS RELEASE — On Thursday May 24, 2012 Jose A. Ayala 22 YOA was extradited from Mexico by US Marshals and handed over to Yakima Police Detectives at SeaTac International Airport.
Ayala was booked last night by Yakima Police Detectives into the Yakima County Jail on the charge of Murder 2nd Degree Domestic Violence.
Ayala was wanted in relation to the October 22, 2008 homicide of his girlfriend Yesenia Haro.
Ayala has been in custody in Mexico since November, 2011 awaiting extradition.
Yakima Police Detectives, Yakima County Prosecutor’s Office, United States Marshal Service and the United State Department of Justice worked together on the extradition process.”
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May 24, 2012
RIA Novosti on May 24, 2012 released the following:
“The defense team for imprisoned Russian businessman, Viktor Bout, has started work on an appeal to Russian Ministry of Justice requesting his extradition from the U.S. as well as appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court and the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Bout’s lawyer Albert Dayan said.
Under a convention between Russia and the U.S. dating from the 1980’s the Russian Ministry of Justice may request the handing over of Russians sentenced in the U.S. Eric Holder, the current U.S. Attorney General, has said that the U.S. may consider an application for Bout, who has been sentenced to 25 years in jail, to serve his prison term in Russia if they receive the request.
“The appeal to the Justice Ministry is already at work, it will take months to prepare the necessary documents. We simultaneously work on three lengthy legal documents; on the appeal and the claim to International Court of Justice in the Hague,” Dayan said.
Dayan added that the defense team had been extended to manage the volume of work required.
“Victor Bout’s appeal is not a personal letter from a Russian, not just a private request. We are working on a document that will prepare a legal base for the governments of Russia and the United States on his extradition. We are studying precedents, materials, bilateral and international agreements, and conventions. We are preparing arguments for the negotiations between Russia and the United States,” Dayan said.
Dayan also noted that Bout is keeping his spirits up and believes he will return to Russia.
“Viktor Bout continues to believe that the country would stand for him. He works hard and hopes to return home”, the lawyer said.
Bout, a former Soviet Air Force officer who was dubbed the “Merchant of Death” in the United States, has been sentenced to 25 years in a U.S. jail for conspiring to kill U.S. citizens and sell arms to Colombian militants. He maintains his innocence.
On May 11, the U.S. penitentiary authority said Bout would be sent from his Brooklyn jail to a super maximum security prison in Colorado, where convicted terrorists and other dangerous criminals are serving their sentences, often in solitary confinement.”
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May 24, 2012
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 23, 2012 released the following:
“United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that today Armando Villareal Heredia, aka Gordo Villareal, was successfully extradited from the Republic of Mexico to the United States to face federal racketeering (RICO) and drug charges in the Southern District of California. According to court documents, Villareal is the lead defendant in a 43-defendant racketeering prosecution against the Fernando Sanchez- Arellano Organization (FSO) which has been ongoing in the Southern District of California since July 2010. Villareal was arrested by Mexican law enforcement officers on July 9, 2011 at the request of the United States. Since his arrest in Mexico, Villareal has remained in custody pending extradition to the United States. According to the indictment, Villareal was one of the top leaders of this criminal organization, which evolved from the now-defunct Arellano-Felix Organization and is headed by the nephew of Benjamin and Javier Arellano-Felix.
“Today’s extradition of Villareal, a top-lieutenant in the FSO who answered directly to Fernando Sanchez Arellano, highlights our continued successful efforts to work with the government of Mexico to combat organized criminal activity along the southwest border,” United States Attorney Duffy stated. To date, 38 defendants have entered guilty pleas in the case. During those guilty pleas, the defendants admitted to participating in a violent transnational racketeering enterprise controlled by Fernando Sanchez- Arellano and to committing murders, kidnappings, robberies, assaults, money laundering, and a wide range of drug trafficking offenses. Four defendants are fugitives and the only other remaining in-custody defendant is scheduled for trial on June 5, 2012.
The indictment in this case resulted from a long-term investigation conducted by the multi-agency San Diego Cross Border Violence Task Force (CBVTF). The CBVTF was formed to target those individuals involved in organized crime-related violent activities affecting both the United States and Mexico. Law enforcement personnel assigned to the CBVTF made extensive use of court-authorized wiretaps and other sophisticated investigative techniques to develop the significant evidence which led to the charges in this case.
United States Attorney Duffy praised the Mexican government for their assistance in the extradition of Villareal. She also commended the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) for the coordinated team effort in handling this investigation, Operation Luz Verde. Agents and officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation; San Diego Police Department; Drug Enforcement Administration; San Diego Sheriff’s Office; Chula Vista Police Department; U.S. Marshals Service; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; San Diego District Attorney’s Office; and California Department of Justice participated in this OCDETF investigation. The Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs provided significant assistance in the extradition. The OCDETF program was created to consolidate and utilize all law enforcement resources in this country’s battle against organized crime and major drug trafficking organizations.
The defendant is expected to be in federal court in San Diego tomorrow, May 24, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. before United States Magistrate Judge Nita L. Stormes.
An indictment itself is not evidence that the defendant committed the crimes charged. The defendant is presumed innocent until the government meets its burden in court of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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May 23, 2012
New Zealand Herald on May 24, 2012 released the following:
“By David Fisher
The Government’s lawyers have been ordered to explain how the FBI left the country with evidence in the Kim Dotcom case meant to be kept in “secure custody” by New Zealand police.
High Court Chief Justice Helen Winkelmann has told the Attorney-General’s lawyer, Mike Ruffin, he has until Monday to explain why FBI agents were allowed to take 135 cloned computer and data storage devices to the United States.
At a legal challenge at the High Court in Auckland yesterday, Dotcom’s lawyer Paul Davison, QC, called the revelation “high-handed” at best and “at the worst misleading”.
Mr Davison and lawyers for Dotcom’s three co-accused want a judicial review into search warrants used during FBI-inspired raids on January 20. Dotcom, Finn Batato, Mathias Ortman and Bram van der Kolk were arrested over allegations of criminal copyright violation through their file-sharing website Megaupload.
Mr Davison said he asked for assurances in correspondence with Mr Ruffin’s predecessor, Anne Toohey, that no evidence would leave New Zealand shores unless on the back of a court decision.
Crown Law had told him it had “not happened and will not happen without prior warning”. He said yesterday was the first time he was aware any material had left the country and there had been an agreement to maintain the “status quo” over the evidence. “There is no approval for the removal of these clones from New Zealand. There has been an excess of authority.”
Mr Davison said the correspondence included a statement from the head of the police organised crime squad, Detective Inspector Grant Wormald, that the belongings were held in secure custody.
He said Dotcom’s rights had been “subverted or disregarded or worse”.
The revelation is the latest embarrassment for the Crown, which has already been exposed for fumbling parts of the case. It used the wrong law to get a court order to seize Dotcom’s assets – an error which contributed to the police having to offer an undertaking of liability. There had earlier been discontent over the size, scale and style of the police raid which Davison has said will form a complaint to the Independent Police Conduct Authority.
Yesterday, Mr Ruffin said he was aware the cloned copies had been sent out of New Zealand. However, he said he was unaware of Ms Toohey’s assurances to Mr Davison.
Mr Ruffin told the court a set of digital images copied from the computers had been taken to the US. “The actual items seized under the search warrant remain in New Zealand,” he said.
The Crown Law Office and Attorney-General Chris Finlayson refused to comment.”
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May 18, 2012
The Boston Globe on May 18, 2012 released the following:
“By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff
Ecuador’s ambassador to the United States this week rejected US Senator John F. Kerry’s request to extradite a man accused of a Brockton double murder, and urged Kerry to support Ecuador’s decision to prosecute him there, according to a letter released to the media today.
Ambassador Nathalie Cely said in a letter to Kerry that Ecuador had worked “tirelessly” to obtain evidence from Massachusetts prosecutors needed to keep Luis Guaman in prison in Ecuador, where the constitution bars extradition of Ecuadoran citizens.
An Ecuadoran court last month convicted the 42-year-old roofer for the February 2011 murders of a mother and son in Brockton, based largely on the evidence outlined in the US extradition request, and sentenced Guaman to 25 years in prison.
Guaman’s defense lawyer has appealed, and he has pointed out during the trial that Massachusetts prosecutors did not send any physical evidence to bolster the case.
Cely wrote Kerry that Ecuadoran prosecutors cannot violate the nation’s constitution, but in letter, which was dated Tuesday, she urged Kerry to help secure evidence that would “guard against any potential appeal.”
“While I appreciate your disappointment about the decision to not extradite Mr. Guaman, I hope that you will consider supporting my government’s effort to obtain the evidence requested from the Massachusetts judicial authorities so that we can ensure he remains incarcerated for his full sentence,” she wrote to Kerry.
Cely was responding to a May 10 request by Kerry, who chairs the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, that Ecuador return Guaman to Massachusetts. Kerry, who joined Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz and Senator Scott Brown in calling for the extradition, had expressed concern that Guaman could be freed in as little as 10 years, though the presiding judge in Guaman’s case said they expected him to serve the vast majority of his sentence.
In the letter, Cely pointed out that Ecuador has a long record of “active and ongoing” cooperation with the United States, including combating drug trafficking, terrorism, and human smuggling. She said Ecuador helped capture six Pakistani citizens involved in human trafficking last year.
Guaman, who lived in the United States illegally for almost two decades, has been indicted in Plymouth County for the bludgeoning deaths of his housemates Maria Avelina Palaguachi, 25, and her 2-year-old son Brian. He left the United States using another man’s passport hours after their bodies were found in a trash bin behind their house.
Cruz refused multiple requests from Ecuador to send evidence to bolster their case and called the trial a “sham.” Cruz has said that Ecuador’s constitution violates its preexisting extradition treaty with the United States and called for economic sanctions against the South American nation.
Cruz has also pointed out that Guaman would face a stiffer penalty of life in prison without parole in Massachusetts, if convicted.”
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May 17, 2012
Daily News Los Angeles on May 17, 2012 released the following:
“By Fred Shuster City News Service
LOS ANGELES – The mother of a man suspected of setting dozens of fires in Hollywood, West Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley over New Year’s weekend will face an extradition hearing today. | POLICE NEWS
Dorothee Burkhart, 53, is fighting extradition to her native Germany, where she is wanted on a host of fraud charges.
Attorneys for both sides are expected to argue before U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles F. Eick, who rejected a request to free Burkhart on bail pending today’s proceedings.
The woman has described herself as the sole link between her “mentally ill” son, Harry, and “the outside world.” Her 24-year-old son faces trial on dozens of arson-related charges stemming from the series of fires that terrorized Los Angeles over four nights at the start of the year.
“I was the person who was the bridge between the outside world and the inside of his brain,” Burkhart said at a previous hearing.
Her arrest pending extradition is thought to have sparked the arson rampage allegedly committed by her distraught son, her only child.
An attorney for Harry Burkhart asked Eick in court papers last week to temporarily suspend the extradition proceedings on the grounds that the mother is a key witness in her son’s case.
Dorothee Burkhart is accused in Frankfurt of subletting apartments that she did not own, failing to pay rent and security deposits on other locations, and defrauding a cosmetic surgeon out of about $10,000 for breast augmentation surgery for which she never paid, according to court papers.
The extradition process can take upward of a year, federal prosecutors said. It took about four months to extradite former TV producer Bruce Beresford- Redman to Mexico to face charges for the killing of his wife — an unusually short amount of time because Beresford-Redman decided not to appeal the judge’s extradition order.
Harry Burkhart faces 100 felony charges related to 49 blazes set between Dec. 30 and Jan. 2. Most of the fires began in automobiles but usually spread to homes in Hollywood, West Hollywood, Sherman Oaks and surrounding areas.
His bail has been set at $7.5 million. A trial date has not been set.”
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May 17, 2012
The Voice of Russia on May 17, 2012 released the following:
“The problem of extraditing Viktor Bout to Russia can be solved by diplomats alone, Russia’s interim Justice Minister Alexander Konovalov stated on May 17. According to the US Attorney General, Eric Holder, Washington is ready to consider an extradition application if Russia submits one.
Russia and the US have no bilateral criminal extradition deal, thus, issues of this kind will be solved diplomatically. According to Mr.Konovalov, the transfer can be made only if the US, Russia and Bout himself agree on it.
As for Russia, it is hundred percent in. So, the parties have protracted consultations ahead.
According to Eric Holder, the US will begin to consider the application as soon as Russia makes one. It should be prepared by Russia’s Foreign Ministry, says lawyer Alexei Lunyov
“Russia is represented abroad by the Foreign Ministry and, thus, the latter should submit an extradition application. Whether Bout’s relatives or state officials will ask the Ministry to file an application depends on specific circumstances.”
Experts think that the Bout case is not over yet. Earlier, Bout’s transfer to a super maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado has been postponed. The transfer had been appealed by his lawyer Albert Dayan. If Russia moves futher in this direction, it may count on more victories, says ex -State Duma MP Kira Lukyanova
“It’s obviously the lawyers’ win. I think that further concessions are possible but Russia’s government shouldn’t stop and should ask for mitigating Bout’s imprisonment as he is not a terrorist. A court of appeals has a big say in this situation.”
Russia’s parliament can meet for a special session to discuss the rights of Russian citizens in the US, Member of the Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Andrey Klimov told the VoR.
On April 5, Russian businessman Viktor Bout was sentenced to 25 years in prison for conspiracy to sell weapons to Colombian rebels. He maintains his innocence.”
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May 10, 2012
Dominican Today on May 10, 2012 released the following:
“SANTO DOMINGO.- An ex New York City policeman and alleged local head of the “Cibao Cartel” faces extradition to the United States on charges of drug trafficking and armed robbery, among others, the National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) revealed Thursday.
It said the extraditable Iván Miguel Tineo, AKA Miguel Benedicto Goris is being held in Najayo Prison since March 2011 on possession of 157 packages of cocaine found aboard the boat `Capricho,’ moored at Samaná Port.
Also charged but still on the loose in the case are Nadim Pguero Bezi and Alfredo Meregildo Henríquez, among others.
Dominican authorities also seized from Tineo a cache of guns, military garb and insignias of and forged documents to impersonate senior Antinarcotics Police officers, under the name Miguel B. Goris.
In a statement DNCD spokesman Roberto Lebrón said the policeman’s drug trafficking network was dismantled March 2011, and is charged in the U.S. with “criminal conspiracy to commit assaults, according to the Hobbs Law.”
The DNCD said Tineo will be held in the Agency’s compound until the Supreme Court hands down a ruling on the extradition request submitted by U.S. authorities, who affirm that the defendant is also wanted in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Georgia, among other jurisdictions. “This individual, together with other accomplices, conspired to assault drug dealers in New York and other states.”"
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May 9, 2012
CNN on May 9, 2012 released the following:
“From Mayra Cuevas, InSession
(CNN) — Joran van der Sloot told a judge and prosecutor Tuesday that he would prefer to finish serving a 28-year murder sentence in Peru rather than be extradited to the United States to face charges related to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, his Peruvian lawyer said.
Representatives from the U.S. Embassy and the FBI attended the extradition hearing, which was not open to the public, Maximo Altez told InSession on Tru TV.
A conviction in the United States could affect van der Sloot’s chances of being paroled in Peru, said Altez. He noted that a long-standing extradition treaty between the two countries means that van der Sloot will likely be extradited, despite his stated preference about remaining in Peru.
Peruvian judges in January sentenced the Dutchman to 28 years in prison for the murder in 2010 of Stephany Flores. He is also the prime suspect in the disappearance of Holloway. U.S. authorities want to try van der Sloot on charges of extortion and wire fraud in the Holloway case.
“I think he will be extradited within the next three months,” Altez said last month. “He will go to trial in the United States. Once he is sentenced, he will return to Peru to finish serving his 28 years, and then go back to the States to serve whatever sentence he gets there.”
In June 2010, a federal grand jury in Alabama indicted him after allegations that he tried to extort $250,000 from Holloway’s mother, Beth Holloway. Van der Sloot offered to provide what turned out to be bogus information about the whereabouts of Holloway’s remains in exchange for the money, according to the indictment.
He was allegedly given $25,000, which authorities say he used to travel to Peru for a poker tournament.
If found guilty of extortion, he could be sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Van der Sloot admitted to killing Flores, 21, in his Lima hotel room. The judges gave him a sentence two years short of the 30-year maximum. They ordered he be expelled from Peru at the end of his sentence and required him to pay about $74,500 in reparations to Flores’ relatives.
Van der Sloot confessed to robbery in addition to murder, admitting that he stole Flores’ belongings, including more than $300 in local currency, credit cards and the victim’s van as a means to leave the country. He fled to Chile and was arrested a few days later.
Another van der Sloot attorney, Jose Luis Jimenez, has said that his client was under special stress the day of the 2010 murder, which marked five years after Holloway, an 18-year-old from Alabama, disappeared while vacationing on Aruba.
Van der Sloot, who was among the last people reported to have been seen with Holloway, was detained twice but never charged in the case.
“The world had been against him for five years before this case, for a murder he said he never committed and for which there is no evidence whatsoever,” Jimenez has said.
Investigators have said they believe van der Sloot killed Flores after she found something related to the Holloway case on his computer while visiting him in his hotel room. The two met while van der Sloot was in town for the poker tournament.
Judges described how Flores hit van der Sloot in the face after reading the item on Holloway, leading him to hit her in the face with his elbow. Flores fainted and van der Sloot tried to strangle her, but she was still breathing, so he suffocated her with his shirt.
Van der Sloot then tried to clean the room by removing the sheets and changing his bloodied shirt, they said.
He was caught in a taxi near the Chilean central coastal city of Vina del Mar.
Holloway’s body has not been found, and no one has been charged in relation to the case in Aruba.
About 6½ years after Holloway was last reported seen, in May 2005, she was declared legally dead.”
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May 4, 2012
The Final Call on May 4, 2012 released the following:
“BY DAVID MCFADDEN ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jamaica recently announced a new government task force April 26 to fight proliferating lottery scams that have made the Caribbean country a center for international telemarketing fraud.
The Jamaican and U.S. governments already have a three-year-old joint task force that has been dealing with the schemes, which mainly target elderly Americans, but the problem has gotten worse.
Julian Robinson, a senior official in Jamaica’s Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, told reporters the lottery scams will seriously damage Jamaica’s reputation as a Caribbean tourist destination and business center if they continue.
“The implications of the lotto scam touches and encompasses so many critical areas of our national life,’’ Mr. Robinson said while flanked by police commanders and other government officials in tourism, investment and foreign affairs.
He said at least “30,000 calls are made into the U.S. from Jamaica attempting to defraud’’ American citizens every day. The United States is Jamaica’s biggest trade partner and source of tourists.
Mr. Robinson cited recent media coverage as a reason why the new inter-ministerial task force has been named. His April 19 announcement came two days after The Associated Press published a report on the Jamaican scams.
Police on the island say there are very visible signs of the fraud-spawned riches in the hot spot for the gangs, St. James parish, where a growing number of teenagers and twenty-somethings from modest backgrounds are living very well without any obvious source of income.
Deputy Police Commissioner Glenmore Hinds said the violent fraud rings are recruiting students out of high schools, some as young as 14 years of age. One 15-year-old scammer was able to buy his mother a house and drove around his community in a luxury car, Mr. Hinds said.
The rising economic power of the swindlers is also having a corrupting influence on police.
“Gangs are now contracted to seek out revenge on competitors and in some cases corrupt policemen are also employed to work for and on behalf of the scammers,’’ Mr. Hinds said.
The young Jamaican con artists have become so brazen that they throw lavish street parties. “There are parishes where scammers use champagne to wash their cars and light money as part of their celebrations,’’ Mr. Hinds said.
The Jamaican and U.S. governments set up a joint task force three years ago to combat the scams. But complaints in the U.S. have increased dramatically every year and even the most conservative estimates put the yearly take from Jamaican scams at $300 million (185,609,375 pounds), up from about $30 million (18.5 million pounds) in 2009.
Mr. Hinds said several swindle suspects are expected to be extradited to the U.S. soon, but declined to specify how many. So far, there has not been a single extradition.
The scams started taking off in Jamaica roughly five years ago, at about the same time the island became a regional leader in call centers dedicated to customer service. Since 2006, many of the legitimate call centers have been based in Montego Bay, and that is where many of the fraud rings have popped up.
The schemes are so entrenched in Jamaica that some American police departments have started warning vulnerable elderly residents to be wary of calls from Jamaica’s 876 telephone code.”
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Douglas McNabb and other members of the U.S. law firm practice and write and/or report extensively on matters involving Federal Criminal Defense, INTERPOL Red Notice Removal, International Extradition Defense, OFAC SDN Sanctions Removal, International Criminal Court Defense, and US Seizure of Non-Resident, Foreign-Owned Assets. Because we have experience dealing with INTERPOL, our firm understands the inter-relationship that INTERPOL’s “Red Notice” brings to this equation.
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