Dominican national accused of heroin trafficking extradited to the U.S.

Santo Domingo – Dominican authorities, through the Attorney General’s Office and the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD), with the support of the U.S. Marshals Service, extradited a Dominican accused of international drug trafficking in the United States.
José Heriberto Vinicio de Jesús was handed over to the U.S. authorities at the Punta Cana International Airport by decree 473-24, which ordered his extradition.

The Dominican, already guarded by officers of that country, boarded a flight to the United States. This country requires him in a Court of the District of Arizona to answer the charges of heroin and methamphetamine trafficking.

“Vinicio de Jesus is charged with criminal association to distribute and possess one kilogram of a mixture or substance containing heroin as well as 500 grams or more of methamphetamines.”

The extraditable was arrested in July 2024, when he arrived in the country from Colombia through the International Airport of the Americas, José Francisco Pena Gómez.

The extradition of the Dominican Republic’s extraditable person is part of the strengthening of the Dominican Republic’s cooperation with allied countries in the fight against drug trafficking, money laundering, and transnational organized crime.