KINGSTON, Jamaica – Forty-eight-year-old Michael Gifton, a taxi operator of Regent Street, Denham Town in Kingston, who is wanted in the United States of America (USA) for the offence of murder in the second degree, was extradited to that country on Friday.
A news release from the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Corporate Communications Unit said Gifton was arrested on Tuesday, October 20, by members of the Counter Terrorism and Organized Crime Investigation Branch (C-TOC) and taken before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court where he waived his rights to an extradition hearing.
Gifton was subsequently handed over to a United States marshal at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston.
They departed the island for Westchester County Airport in New York.
