| Former US Embassy Staffer
in Santo Domingo on Drug Import
Scheme Discussing Resolution
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Jan 23 – The prosecutors of
the Southern District of New
York announced on August 6
that JAIRO ELIEZER ARIAS
CACERES, a former employee of
the U.S. Embassy in Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic,
was extradited from the
Dominican Republic in
connection with the unsealing
of an Indictment charging
ARIAS CACERES with conspiracy
to import cocaine into the
United States. ARIAS
CACERES will make his initial
appearance later today before
U.S. District Judge Robert W.
Lehrburger.
Inner City Press
was there; Caceres with his
assigned Federal Defender
consented to detention without
prejudice to a subsequent
application for bail. There
has been no next court hearing
set, so the Defender asked for
one in two weeks.
The
indictment says he also
previously worked in the
airport, and used both former
positions to coordinated the
alleged conspiracy.
Jump cut to
January 23, 2026, when the US
Attorney's Office wrote in to
push back the January 29
conference for 30 days, saying
"the parties are discussing a
potential pretrial
resolution."
The case is USA
v. Arias Caceres, 1:24-cr-659
(Woods / Lehrburger)
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