Tag: extradition

Release bid fails by inmate awaiting US extradition

Release bid fails by inmate awaiting US extradition

| 10/06/2024 | 8 Comments

(CNS): Chief Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale said a habeas corpus application by Juan Carlos Gonzalez Infante on the grounds that he has been unlawfully detained “was wholly misguided” because he has a right of appeal, and that hearing is set for 18 June. Gonzalez Infante appealed against his extradition to the United States on cocaine trafficking […]

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Man sits in jail 1,600 days in extradition case

Man sits in jail 1,600 days in extradition case

| 01/11/2023 | 42 Comments

(CNS): Juan Carlos Gonzales Infante (61), a Venezuelan national wanted by the US authorities for drug smuggling and money laundering, has served more than four years at HMP Northward even though he has never been convicted of a crime here. Gonzales came to Cayman in 2019 as a co-pilot of a private plane carrying gold. […]

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Co-pilot, in jail more than 1,550 days, fights extradition

Co-pilot, in jail more than 1,550 days, fights extradition

| 24/07/2023 | 12 Comments

(CNS): A man who arrived in the Cayman Islands as the co-pilot of a private jet more than four years ago has been in jail since then, despite being found not guilty of gold smuggling here in 2020, as he fights extradition to the United States. Juan Carlos Gonzales Infante (60), a Venezuelan national who […]

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Man extradited from UK over road death charges

Man extradited from UK over road death charges

| 26/08/2021

(CNS): Levar Wood (27), who was arrested on suspicion of killing his best friend, Giovani Berry (27), almost two years ago has been extradited from the UK and was due to appear in court Thursday facing charges of causing death by dangerous driving. Wood fled the jurisdiction after he was a bailed and allowed to […]

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Ex-care home worker faces extradition for manslaughter

Ex-care home worker faces extradition for manslaughter

| 24/09/2018

(CNS): Two men have been charged with manslaughter and child cruelty in connection with the death of a teenage resident at the Bonaventure Boys Home. Risco Batten (14) drowned in South Sound in November 2015 during a fishing trip with the men, who were both supervisors at the home. One of the two men, Larry Levers […]

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Ailing suspect to be extradited to Hawaii in theft case

Ailing suspect to be extradited to Hawaii in theft case

| 15/06/2018 | 37 Comments

(CNS): An ailing 60-year-old local woman who absconded before she faced trial in Hawaii on theft and fraud charges is to be extradited to the United States after a magistrate ruled on Friday that there was no reason not to grant the request. Rosmarie Dellatore Bodden is accused of stealing some $70,000 from a 86-year-old […]

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US fugitive to fight extradition

US fugitive to fight extradition

| 11/01/2018 | 99 Comments

(CNS): Wayne Collier (28), who is wanted by the American authorities in connection with the murder of his pregnant partner, appeared in court for the second time Thursday. Defence attorney John Furniss, who is representing the US fugitive, told the court that he planned to fight the extradition to the USA. Collier is accused of […]

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Jamaican fugitive charged with illegal landing

Jamaican fugitive charged with illegal landing

| 23/08/2017 | 0 Comments

(CNS): A Jamaican national who is on the run from the law in that country appeared in the Cayman Islands Summary Court Tuesday, charged with illegal landing, and has been remanded in custody. O’Brien Ellis, who is from Westmoreland, is wanted by law enforcement authorities in Jamaica as he is suspected of murder and arson. He […]

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Court clears Kildag to go home

Court clears Kildag to go home

| 05/04/2017 | 23 Comments

(CNS): Celal Kildag and his wife told the media Wednesday that they were immensely relieved after Magistrate Grace Donalds delivered her ruling stopping his extradition to Turkey, having found that the delay of 29 years was a barrier to the process. Magistrate Donalds said the Turkish authorities had not given “an adequate explanation” for the […]

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‘Plethora of grounds’ to stop extradition

‘Plethora of grounds’ to stop extradition

| 04/04/2017 | 19 Comments

(CNS): The lawyer defending German citizen Celal Kildag, who was arrested in Cayman on an Interpol warrant on behalf of Turkey when he was visiting the island by cruise ship last year, has argued that there are “a plethora of grounds” why the extradition should be stopped and the man allowed to return home. It is […]

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