Cuban Exile Bomber Released From Detention
A Cuban exile convicted for his role in the 1976 car-bomb assassination of a former Chilean ambassador in Washington has been released from an immigration service detention center in Florida, an immigration official said.
Jose Dionisio Suarez Esquivel, 62, who was arrested in St. Petersburg, Fla., in 1990 and pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge, was freed Tuesday, said immigration officer David Wing.
Suarez was sentenced to eight years in prison and then was held in the detention center in Bradenton after his release on probation in 1997 while the Immigration and Naturalization Service tried to deport him to Cuba.
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