1.   Both men were taken into custody by the Dominican police earlier this year, but until Wednesday it was unclear whether their extradition would take place.

2.   Almonte is the brother of a high-ranking Dominican police official, Munson said.

3.   Botello, also the Dominican police secretary, denied the charges.

4.   Dominican police have arrested seven Colombians following a spate of assaults on money couriers in the Caribbean country, police said Monday.

5.   Dominican police last week said they arrested a man in a Castro assassination plot, while The Miami Herald reported a similar purported plot by Cuban exiles.

6.   Dominican police would welcome the help of their U.S. counterparts in fighting drug trafficking at home, the Dominican police chief said Monday.

7.   Dominican police arrested Hales Monday in the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo, where he called himself Barry Owens Sr., FBI spokeswoman Sara Lema said.

8.   Dominican police denied allegations that they beat and tortured a human rights advocate and unlawfully detained scores of others to quell a general strike.

9.   Dominican police arrested plastic surgeon Edgar Contreras and another doctor on charges of involuntary homicide in the deaths of two women patients.

10.   Dominican police chief Jose Anibal Sanz Jiminian denied the injury reports.