In re Extradition

CERTIFICATION OF EXTRADIT-ABILITY AND ORDER OF COMMITMENT

This is a proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 3184 pursuant to a request by the Republic of Mexico for the extradition from the United States to Mexico of Gabriel Alfredo Valdez-Mainero, under the provisions of the Extradition Treaty Between the United States of America and the United Mexican States, May 4,1978 (“Treaty”).

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Procedural History and Factual Background

On February 4, 1997, the Judge of the Fourth District Court for the State of Baja, California, Mexico issued an arrest warrant for Gabriel Alfredo Valdez-Mainero for the crime of Illegally Bringing into the Country a Firearm Reserved for the Exclusive Use of the Mexican Army, Navy, and Air Force.

The Mexican Court’s summary of the evidence upon which the court relied in issuing the arrest warrant for Valdez, as set forth in documents which accompanied. the Formal Request for Extradition, indicate that in 1993, Mexican law enforcement agents executed a search warrant at Valdez’s home, located at Calle Hipódromo number 11, Colo-nia Hipódromo, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. During the search, law enforcement agents found a number of firearms, including a nine…