NEW YORK.- The U.S. Department of Justice in Washington is preparing the request to extradite the Dominican Navy and other military officers and several civilians implicated in the executions of seven Colombians in Paya, Baní (south), said a Dominican embassy source quoted by newspaper El Nuevodiario.

Although they didn’t specify which state would make the request, they affirmed that the Office of the Federal Prosecutor awaits only for the Grand Jury to conclude revising the evidence it presented against the ex lieutenant Edward Mayobanex Rodriguez Montero, whom the Dominican authorities allege is the mastermind of the murders.

However, the source said they could be extradited to New York and San Juan; cities they say are reached by the tentacles of the ring of narcotics trafficking and assassins in uniforms and civilians, and where thousands of kilos of cocaine and heroin have been shipped to and where they have important partners in organized crime.

Yesterday the Dominican press reported that two men posing as police officers entered Police headquarters with the clear intention to kill Rodriguez in his jail cell to silence him, because it’s believed that other high ranking officers and even political figures are involved in the organization.

The ex officer’s lawyer Victor Manuel Marte and his relatives affirm that he was always willing to turn himself in, but didn’t do so from fear of being assassinated while in custody.

Rodriguez was arrested in the airport at Puerto Plata while trying to take a flight out of the Caribbean country.