In Re the Extradition of Tafoya

MEMORANDUM SUPPORTING EXTRADITION CERTIFICATION

SUTTLE, Senior District Judge.

In this action the United States, on behalf of the government of Canada, seeks to extradite Eugene Aloys Tafoya for willfully doing an act

that was likely to constitute mischief causing actual danger to life; to wit, wilfully destroying an automobile, the property of Robert A. Manina by setting the automobile on fire when it was parked in the driveway of a residential home located at 221 Pandora Avenue North, Kitchener, contrary to Section 387(5) of the Criminal Code of Canada.

In January of this year the government…