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10-16-2009, 02:00 PM
Former Navy captain Carlos E. Rosso Pena decided yesterday to turn himself over to the United States justice system where he is wanted on charges of protecting and storing boats used by the cartels for trafficking large shipments of drugs into the United States. The former officer took the decision after a lengthy interrogation session at the Attorney General's office. Once Rosso stated his intentions in front of a notary public, the Penal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) was authorized to handle the case, and they asked him if he wanted to go voluntarily.
The justices declared there was no objection against ordering the extradition because of volunteer surrender. The case was presented by Assistant Attorney General and department head Gisela Cueto. The former naval officer fled the DR to Haiti on 13 September and traveled on to Colombia, supposedly to turn himself in to a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agent.
In Haiti he had false documents made up in the name of Angel Bolivar Alcantara Perez before traveling on to Panama and reaching Colombia on Tuesday or Wednesday. Colombian authorities captured him and began a process of deportation to Haiti, but Rosso identified himself as a Dominican, so they sent him to the Dominican Republic. When he arrived at Las Americas International Airport nobody knew that he was a fugitive with an arrest warrant issued on 9 August by the SCJ. He asked a DNCD officer at the air terminal if he knew him, and received a negative answer. Rosso then identified himself and asked to be taken to the superior officer because he wanted to turn himself in. Attorney General Radhames Jimenez immediately began the paperwork needed for the extradition.
Rosso was discharged from the Dominican Navy in August 2008 and is alleged to have been the chief partner of former navy major Miguel Antonio Suarez Silfa who was also requested on extradition charges by the United States last month. He was in a high security detention center run by the DNCD in 2008 and was freed on 2 October 2009 on an order that came from the Santo Domingo prosecutor's office. The prosecutor who dealt with the case at that time was Juan Antonio Mateo Ciprian.
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The justices declared there was no objection against ordering the extradition because of volunteer surrender. The case was presented by Assistant Attorney General and department head Gisela Cueto. The former naval officer fled the DR to Haiti on 13 September and traveled on to Colombia, supposedly to turn himself in to a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agent.
In Haiti he had false documents made up in the name of Angel Bolivar Alcantara Perez before traveling on to Panama and reaching Colombia on Tuesday or Wednesday. Colombian authorities captured him and began a process of deportation to Haiti, but Rosso identified himself as a Dominican, so they sent him to the Dominican Republic. When he arrived at Las Americas International Airport nobody knew that he was a fugitive with an arrest warrant issued on 9 August by the SCJ. He asked a DNCD officer at the air terminal if he knew him, and received a negative answer. Rosso then identified himself and asked to be taken to the superior officer because he wanted to turn himself in. Attorney General Radhames Jimenez immediately began the paperwork needed for the extradition.
Rosso was discharged from the Dominican Navy in August 2008 and is alleged to have been the chief partner of former navy major Miguel Antonio Suarez Silfa who was also requested on extradition charges by the United States last month. He was in a high security detention center run by the DNCD in 2008 and was freed on 2 October 2009 on an order that came from the Santo Domingo prosecutor's office. The prosecutor who dealt with the case at that time was Juan Antonio Mateo Ciprian.
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