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06-30-2010, 02:20 PM
Limarie Llovet, spokesperson for the Federal Prosecutor Office of Puerto Rico, has told El Dia that the extradition request for Antonio del Rosario Puente (Tono Lena) was submitted on 16 June. El Dia provides details of the legal case against him being prepared in Puerto Rico. Locally, the Prosecutor General has said they have not received the request. Tono Lena was arrested in Venezuela and sent to the Dominican Republic.
The Puerto Rican authorities want Lena to be tried in Puerto Rico for drug trafficking charges, and not in the DR. The Puerto Ricans accuse him of coordinating a criminal organization that transported cocaine and heroin from South America using the DR as a transshipment point to Puerto Rico and the continental United States.
The case file (number 3:10-cr-00219-JAG) explains that the drug trafficking operations began in 2000, the year in which drug trafficker Jose David Figueroa Agosto, who is now on the run, also began his illicit operations in the Dominican Republic and shortly before the arrest and extradition of Wilfredo Guzman Duran (Wilfredo el Amarillo) to Puerto Rico.
The criminal gang then went on to be led by Figueroa Agosto, who used the false identity of Cristian Almonte. Figueroa Agosto and Tono Lena are mentioned as the principal suppliers of cocaine and heroin to Angel Ayala Vasquez (Angelo Millones). The Prosecutor Office in Puerto Rico said they had other accomplices who are not mentioned by name. The Puerto Rican authorities said that Tono Lena benefited from intelligence and logistical cooperation from the Dominican authorities in his drug trafficking work.
After the Prosecutor Office in Puerto Rico presented these charges against Tono Lena, the chiefs of the Dominican Police and National Drug Control Department traveled to Puerto Rico.
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The Puerto Rican authorities want Lena to be tried in Puerto Rico for drug trafficking charges, and not in the DR. The Puerto Ricans accuse him of coordinating a criminal organization that transported cocaine and heroin from South America using the DR as a transshipment point to Puerto Rico and the continental United States.
The case file (number 3:10-cr-00219-JAG) explains that the drug trafficking operations began in 2000, the year in which drug trafficker Jose David Figueroa Agosto, who is now on the run, also began his illicit operations in the Dominican Republic and shortly before the arrest and extradition of Wilfredo Guzman Duran (Wilfredo el Amarillo) to Puerto Rico.
The criminal gang then went on to be led by Figueroa Agosto, who used the false identity of Cristian Almonte. Figueroa Agosto and Tono Lena are mentioned as the principal suppliers of cocaine and heroin to Angel Ayala Vasquez (Angelo Millones). The Prosecutor Office in Puerto Rico said they had other accomplices who are not mentioned by name. The Puerto Rican authorities said that Tono Lena benefited from intelligence and logistical cooperation from the Dominican authorities in his drug trafficking work.
After the Prosecutor Office in Puerto Rico presented these charges against Tono Lena, the chiefs of the Dominican Police and National Drug Control Department traveled to Puerto Rico.
www.eldia.com.do/nacionales/2010/6/29/28830/Fiscalia-de-PR... (http://www.eldia.com.do/nacionales/2010/6/29/28830/Fiscalia-de-PR-dice-Tono-Lena-recibio-ayuda-de-autoridades-RD)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)