Tag: Juan Carlos Gonzales Infante
Release bid fails by inmate awaiting US extradition
(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 […]
Man sits in jail 1,600 days in extradition case
(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. […]
Co-pilot, in jail more than 1,550 days, fights extradition
(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 […]
‘Gold case’ pilot suing for legal aid
(CNS): Juan Carlos Gonzales Infante, a Venezuelan pilot who arrived in Cayman more than two years ago aboard a private jet carrying two passengers, $2 million worth of gold and around $135,000 in cash hidden under the floorboards, is suing the courts’ legal aid department after his application for help to fight extradition to the […]
