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Santo Domingo.– The Dominican Supreme Court ruled that a man who acted as an attorney for American missionaries accused of taking 33 children out of Haiti can be extradited to the United States for a separate case.

The suspect, Jorge Puello, is wanted in Vermont for allegedly smuggling illegal immigrants through Canada, according to a 2003 federal indictment. He attracted international attention in February when he served as the spokesman for 10 U.S. Baptists detained in Haiti on child-kidnapping charges after a devastating earthquake.

Authorities later identified Puello as the man wanted in El Salvador and the U.S. He is wanted in El Salvador on charges including sexual exploitation of minors and human trafficking, but Dominican authorities say the Central American country submitted its extradition request too late.

Puello's attorney, Samuel Genao, said he plans to fight the court extradition order before it is approved by President Leonel Fernandez.

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6 comment(s)
Written by: JimHarrington This user is banned, 23 Aug 2010 2:55 PM
From: United States
Lets see if Leonel signs off on this matter. Or will he take a bribe indirectly.
Written by: Atabey, 23 Aug 2010 3:44 PM
From: United States, NYC
Tarring and feathering does this swine deserve.
Written by: Grosero, 23 Aug 2010 9:05 PM
From: United States
He'll either have to be a Bad Ass or He'll "FACE THE NATION" every night!!!!!

Punked is more like it....pound pound pound

faster fatser faster
Written by: baldoria23, 24 Aug 2010 3:45 AM
From: United States, Washington
Criminals, just like good people, come in all shapes and sizes. So stop steryoetyping b/c it's the innocent looking ones who are the ones who'll steal and kill ya, and the ones that seem most destitue and desparate the ones who may come to our aid.

lets see eachother as human beings and judge each individual by their actions, no more group labelling or steryotyping, because the only thing that such narrow mindedness accomplishes is that it deprives us of hidden gems in barrios and bateyes, and opens us up to being defrauded or worse by little princesses w/ angelic faces who skip out on bail... Or "professionals" that steal billions of dollars and send the economy in a tailspin...
Written by: davinci, 24 Aug 2010 8:17 PM
From: Dominican Republic
How easy it is to get CIA agents to Latin American countries. Agent 3454-Samuel Helbrow will be on the streets again once dominicans release him or "deport" him to the US.
Written by: Ricardolito, 25 Aug 2010 7:40 PM
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
I am very glad that this guy can be extradited from the DR and will be interested to know what grounds there can be for appealing the extradition order ..he was very well exposed in the Haiti case but the fact that he exploited minors for sexual reasons was not disclosed then to my knowledge.....How did the Baptist missionaries ever come to use this guy and surely their operations must now be under close scrutiny ..it was suggested that the children from Haiti were to go to an orphanage in the north so the entire story seems very nasty .
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