Accompanied by three dozen DNCD officers, cousins Lidio Nin Terrero and Tirso Cuevas Nin were handed over to two Drug Enforcement Agency officers at Las Americas International Airport for their transfer to New York where they face charges of drug trafficking as part of the case against Quirino Paulino Castillo. The former lieutenant colonel has always claimed that he was “hitching a ride” in the truck driven by his cousin and that contained 1,387 kilograms of pure cocaine. The driver, Tirso Cuevas Nin, has maintained that he was just “a poor driver”. With the latest extraditions, a total of nine Dominicans have now been sent to New York as part of the Paulino Castillo case. Ironically, the Nin cousins were accompanied by the man accused of being a hired killer under contract to kill Nin Terrero. Jesus Gaston Ramos, who often dresses as a police captain, is a reputed assassin hired to keep Nin Terrero from telling the court in New York what he knows about the transfer of the 1,387 kilograms of cocaine. He is also under indictment for other crimes committed in the United States.