{"id":479250,"date":"2025-08-19T19:59:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/four-dominicans-arrested-in-the-midst-of-operation-discovery-3-0-will-be-extradited-to-the-united-states\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T00:00:04","slug":"four-dominicans-arrested-in-the-midst-of-operation-discovery-3-0-will-be-extradited-to-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/four-dominicans-arrested-in-the-midst-of-operation-discovery-3-0-will-be-extradited-to-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Dominicans arrested in the midst of Operation Discovery 3.0 will be extradited to the United States."},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo.-<\/strong>\u00a0Accepting the request of the Public Ministry<\/a>, the Supreme Court of Justice kept in prison four Dominicans arrested in the middle of Operation Discovery 3.0 and who voluntarily accepted their extradition to the United States, where they face charges for the crimes committed as part of a structure that defrauded elderly people.\n\nOscar Manuel Casta\u00f1os Garc\u00eda (Oscar Casta\u00f1os, Oscar Garc\u00eda, Oscar Casta\u00f1o Garc\u00eda or Casta\u00f1o), Joel Jos\u00e9 Cruz Rodr\u00edguez (Paflow or Pa Flow, Joel Cruz Rodr\u00edguez or Joel Cruz Hermano), Joel Francisco Mathilda Le\u00f3n and Edward Jos\u00e9 Puello (Edward Puello) accepted before the court their extradition to the United States in Tuesday’s hearing.\n\nThe Supreme Court of Justice will also hear the extradition of Gerardo Heriberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez N\u00fa\u00f1ez (Jos\u00e9 N\u00fa\u00f1ez N\u00fa\u00f1ez), who was imposed as a coercive measure the fulfillment of preventive prison in the Correction and Rehabilitation Center (CCR) Rafey Hombres, of Santiago, and is waiting for the date to be set to hear the merits of the process.\n\n\n
You may also be interested in: Discovery 3.0 Coercion measure against defendants postponed<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nThe group is wanted by the US justice system for committing various crimes related to the so-called “Grandparent Scam.” The structure used digital platforms to commit computer fraud, theft of personal data, identity theft, and money laundering to the detriment of elderly people.\n\nIn the hearing, the Public Ministry was represented by Deputy Attorney Osvaldo Bonilla, director of International Legal Cooperation, Extraditions and Human Rights, and prosecutor Elvira Rodr\u00edguez.\n\nJudges Francisco Jerez, Fran Soto, and Francisco Ortega, in a hearing held on the morning of this Tuesday, decided to keep the four defendants in prison by the Public Ministry until the administrative extradition process is completed.\n\nThe five Dominicans are held in the Rafey-Hombres Correction and Rehabilitation centers of Santiago and San Felipe de Puerto Plata after being arrested in the midst of Operation Discovery 3.0, carried out by the Dominican Public Ministry and US authorities, where six other men were also arrested, also accused of committing computer fraud, theft of personal data, identity theft and money laundering supported by a criminal structure.\n\nOperation Discovery 3.0, launched by the General Prosecution Directorate of the Public Ministry, along with the Specialized Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Prosecutor’s Office and the Santiago Prosecutor’s Office, was supported by the Special Division of International Organized Crime Investigation (Deicroi) of the National Police.\n\nIn addition, with the international cooperation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), an agency that simultaneously executed raids in the United States, in California, New York, Florida, Maryland, and Missouri.\n\nIn the jurisdiction of Santiago, Jes\u00fas Manuel Casta\u00f1os Col\u00f3n is also being prosecuted,\n\nAdderly Antonio Polanco B\u00e1ez, Bernardo Taveras V\u00e9lez, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n L\u00f3pez Tavarez, Juan Luis Naranjo G\u00f3mez and Luis Eduardo M\u00e9ndez Ure\u00f1a, who were also arrested during Operation Discovery 3.0.\n\nThe Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of that province last Friday postponed until this Wednesday, August 20, the hearing for the knowledge of the coercion measure formulated by the Public Ministry against those six defendants, for whom it requests the imposition of 18 months of preventive prison and that the complex processing process be declared.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo.-\u00a0Accepting the request of the Public Ministry, the Supreme Court of Justice kept in prison four Dominicans arrested in the middle of Operation Discovery 3.0 and who voluntarily accepted their extradition to the United States, where they face charges for the crimes committed as part of a structure that defrauded elderly people. Oscar Manuel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":479251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[40265,41998],"class_list":["post-479250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-public-ministry","tag-they-will-extradite"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20FQ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/DENUNCIA-TU-PROBLEMATICA-2025-04-16T054007.830.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/DENUNCIA-TU-PROBLEMATICA-2025-04-16T054007.830.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}