U.S., Canada Officials Press Bid To Extradite McVey
U.S. and Canadian officials Friday resumed their efforts to extradite fugitive Orange County businessman Charles McVey. He was rearrested Thursday in Vancouver.
McVey, considered one of the U.S. Customs Service’s most wanted fugitives until his arrest in Canada on Aug. 19, was freed on a legal technicality Wednesday. However, a judge issued a new warrant and McVey was rearrested late Thursday at a hotel near Vancouver International Airport.
“The next step is for the U.S. government to furnish us with the evidence to support the request for extradition,” said Paul W. Halprin, the Canadian Justice Department attorney working with the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
Halprin said Friday that he plans to travel to Los Angeles Monday to begin collecting information.
McVey, who lived in Villa Park and had businesses in Anaheim, fled this country in 1982, shortly before he and two others were indicted on charges of illegally exporting $15-million worth of computer equipment to the Soviet Union.
Rob McDonell, McVey’s Vancouver attorney, said Friday that he was not sure yet whether McVey would apply for bail.
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