The president of the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD), Vice Admiral Jose Manuel Cabrera Ulloa clarified that in the case of National District alderman Edickson Herrera Silvestre there is yet only a capture or arrest order issued by a Florida court. This is only effective in the United States. Herrera Silvestre does not face judicial charges in the Dominican Republic where he is an alderman for the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM).
Cabrera Ulloa said the country has not yet received an extradition request from the United States.
The case is heard by the South Florida District Court of the United States dated 5 March 2025 and indicates the indictment dated 5 March 2025 was levied to Edickson Herrera Silvestre (Yeyea or El Regidor) and Jose Eduviges Aponte Torres and William Duran Jerez, accomplices in the alleged international cocaine trafficking network that operated from May 2020 to November 2022 in Miami-Dade, Florida, the DR. If extradited to the United States...
