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Department of Justice Finally Agrees to Transfer Local Marijuana Smuggler to Prison in Spain

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 05/06/2015 - 09:59

David Mendoza with one of his children. (We promise we didn't go out of our way to choose the most saccharine, sympathetic photo—this was the only one Mendoza's people sent.) Courtesy of Laurie King

When we last checked in with pizzeria owner and former marijuana smuggler David Mendoza, he was stuck in prison in Fort Dix, New Jersey, trying to get transferred to a prison in Spain. That was in April of 2014, roughly five years after he'd been arrested in Guernica, extradited to the US, and sentenced in Seattle—and he wasn't having much luck.

Even though Mendoza has dual US and Spanish citizenship, and even though Spanish courts had authorized his extradition back in 2008 with an explicit condition that he serve his sentence in Spain, the Department of Justice seemed immovable.

The extradition treaty between the US and Spain does not allow Spain to demand or decide where...

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