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21 Mar 2012, 9:06 am
Latin American Herald Tribune on March 20, 2012 released the following:
“MEXICO CITY – Mexican police have arrested two suspected members of an international sex-trafficking ring that operates in Mexico and the United States, officials said.
The two detainees are 26-year-old Jaime Granados Rendon, who is wanted for extradition by the United States, and 32-year-old Raul Granados, the federal Public Safety Secretariat said in a statement.
Monday’s arrests were the result of coordination and… [read post]
20 Jun 2012, 6:42 am
latino.foxnews.com on June 19, 2012 released the following:
“A Mexican fugitive has been handed over by the United States to Mexico, marking the first extradition under the new bilateral policy of targeting arms trafficking, the Mexican Attorney General’s Office said.
Gregorio Salgado Lopez faces charges that he smuggled firearms purchased at Pete’s Sport Shop in Madera, California, into Mexico, the AG’s office said.
Salgado was arrested on March 22, 2009, at a customs inspection station in… [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 9:33 am
Colombia’s government extradited a convicted drug trafficker on Tuesday to face trial in the United States, and the country’s highest court ruled a second alleged dealer could be sent to the U.S.
The extradited suspect, 73-year-old Phanor Arizabaleta, is charged with drug trafficking by a court in the U.S. capital. Officials say Arizabaleta was a key figure in the now-defunct Cali cartel.
Arizabaleta previously served several years of a 28-year sentence under house arrest in Colombia due to… [read post]
30 Aug 2011, 10:02 am
A Mexican citizen wanted by a federal court in Texas on criminal conspiracy and drug charges has been extradited to the United States, the Attorney General’s Office said.
Hambler Marquez Castro was handed over “to members of the U.S. Marshals Service of the United States government” last Friday at the Mexico City international airport, the AG’s office said.
The suspected drug trafficker was turned over to U.S. authorities under the terms of the bilateral extradition treaty, the AG’s office… [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 7:46 am
WKOW.com on March 15, 2012 released the following:
“TALLINN, Estonia (AP) – Estonia has approved the extradition of a suspected hacker to the United States where he is accused in a cyber fraud scheme that infected millions of computers worldwide, including those of NASA.
The government said Thursday that 26-year-old Anton Ivanov, an Estonian citizen, is facing charges including computer hacking and online fraud. The U.S. Justice Department had asked Estonia to extradite him.
Ivanov was arrested… [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 9:20 am
Five Canadian fugitives wanted in connection with a mass-marketing fraud were arrested on Wednesday and are in custody for extradition to the United States.
The five – three men and two women – were arrested by the Toronto Police Fugitive Squad assisted by the Provincial ROPE Squad.
They are: Stanley Akubueze,54, and Christopher Ozurus,43, both of Vaughan; Joanna Ferensowicz,43, of Woodbridge; Earnestine Dunkley,34, of Mississauga; and Philip Utomi,56, of Toronto.
The five are accused of… [read post]
31 Dec 2010, 8:17 am
An Indian court cleared the way for Neil P. Campbell, an Australian accused of soliciting a $190,000 bribe as an agent of an organization receiving federal funds from the U.S. over a building contract in Afghanistan, to be voluntarily extradited to the United States to face the charges.
Campbell has said that he does not plan to fight to extradition process.
The Indian court ruled there is enough evidence to try Campbell in the U.S. on the corruption charges.
Campbell, 60, has been in New Delhi’s… [read post]
26 May 2012, 6:06 am
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.… [read post]
6 Aug 2012, 9:45 am
Latino.FoxNews.com on August 5, 2012 released the following:
“Three suspects – two Mexicans and a U.S. citizen – wanted on sexual abuse and murder charges were extradited to the United States, the Mexican Attorney General’s Office said.
Gabino Vidal Jr. and Alejandro Madrigal, both Mexican citizens, and George Martinez, a U.S. citizen, were handed over by federal law enforcement agents to the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI, the AG’s office said.
Vidal is wanted by a Kansas court for… [read post]
19 Mar 2012, 12:47 pm
The Washington Post on March 19, 2012 released the following:
“SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A Canadian man convicted in the 1975 killing of a fellow American Indian Movement activist says the government should not have been allowed to move his case from federal to state court after his extradition to the U.S.
John Graham’s attorney, John Murphy, told the South Dakota Supreme Court on Monday that he didn’t have sufficient time before trial to question the court’s decision to allow Graham’s case to… [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 9:33 am
A U.S. federal appeals court has dismissed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by a Puerto Rican woman against the parents of her slain husband seeking the majority of his wealth.
The ruling Wednesday upholds a district court decision that found Aura Vazquez failed to comply with court orders and delayed her deposition too many times.
Vazquez sued Adam Anhang’s parents six months after the real estate developer was beaten and stabbed to death in Old San Juan in 2005. She accused them of seizing… [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 9:50 am
Don O’Keefe, the United States Marshal for the District of Northern California announced the extradition of Lionel Scott Harris from Venezuela.
U.S. State Department Agents in San Francisco, working with Deputy United States Marshals, located and arrested Harris in Venezuela earlier this year. Harris was convicted of importing marijuana into the United States in excess of 1,000 Kilograms in 1990. Harris failed to appear for sentencing and is thought to have fled to Venezuela at that time.
Harris… [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 8:47 am
The Washington Post on July 18, 2012 released the following:
“By Associated Press
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A New Zealand judge has stepped down from overseeing the extradition case of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom after jokingly referring to the United States as “the enemy.”
The comment by Auckland District Court Judge David Harvey raised questions about his impartiality. He was discussing Internet copyright at a conference last week when he told an audience, “We have met the enemy, and… [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 8:55 am
Chicago Tribune on August 6, 2012 released the following:
“Reuters
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – A Guatemalan court decided on Monday to extradite a 72-year-old suspected drug trafficker to the United States because of his alleged ties to Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel.
Waldemar Lorenzana, who has said he is innocent, was arrested last year while driving in the town of El Jicaro, 40 miles northeast of Guatemala City.
Authorities accuse Lorenzana of running a large cocaine smuggling racket for… [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 2:18 pm
A dual U.S.-Lebanese citizen has been extradited from Paraguay and charged with supporting Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant force.
Moussa Ali Hamdan, age 38, appeared in court in Philadelphia following his extradition and has been charged with providing material support to Hezbollah, a designated foreign terrorist organization.
Hamdan was arrested by Paraguayan authorities June 15 on suspicion of supporting terrorism and subsequently handed over to U.S. custody.
Hamdan is accused in the United States… [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 12:06 pm
Viktor Bout, the suspected Russian arms merchant, is being quoted as saying U.S. authorities promised him a lighter sentence in exchange for information about his contacts.
Bout, known as the “Merchant of Death,” said the plea bargain offer was extended by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents who transported him from Thailand in November.
Bout was arrested in Thailand in 2008 in a U.S. sting on charges of conspiring to sell weapons to a terrorist group. He fought extradition, but was sent… [read post]
18 Jan 2011, 1:18 pm
A United States fugitive who walked away from a South Dakota prison 16 years ago has been found living a secret family life on a Canadian aboriginal reserve where he was born.
Apparently, Clifford Laframboise, 42, was given up for adoption as a baby by his Canadian parents to an American couple.
In 1988, he was sentenced by a U.S. court to 18 years in prison for a series of burglaries, but walked away from the minimum security South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls six years later, and had… [read post]
25 Mar 2011, 9:00 am
International Extradition Treaties with the United States (Part 23):
Tanzania Extradition Treaty with the U.S. (1935 United Kingdom Treaty)
Signed on December 22, 1931
Entered into Force on June 24, 1935
Tanzania Exchange of Notes Regarding Extradition Treaty with the U.S.
Signed on November 30 and December 6, 1965
Entered into Force on December 6, 1965
Thailand Extradition Treaty with the U.S.
Signed on December 14, 1983
Entered into Force on May 17, 1991
Tonga Extradition Treaty with the U.S.… [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 11:51 am
I am pleased to announce that I am the new Chair of the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) – International Law Section.
I look forward to working with my colleague and Vice-Chair, Orlando Silva (Commercial Counsel – Specializing in Export Controls, Customs and International Trade Matters at Research in Motion) and my fellow Section Executives in keeping OBA members updated on current developments in various areas of international law.
Membership in the OBA International Law Section is open to… [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 2:15 pm
An Israeli doctor fighting extradition to the United States on murder charges has committed suicide in a Jerusalem jail, Israeli prison officials said Tuesday.
Apparently, Dr. Eugene Perchikov, who was accused of killing two women in New York, bled to death after cutting himself with a prison-issued razor blade while his cellmates slept on Sunday. A guard inspecting the cell 10 minutes earlier found nothing wrong.
Perchikov, 61, was born in Russia, became a doctor and received an Israeli medical… [read post]