old documents and papers" for a business associate. Muñoz said that Smith sealed the suitcase with duct tape at her apartment and threw it overboard 15 minutes into the boat ride. When Muñoz told Smith that he should not dump trash in the ocean, he allegedly responded that it was an American business tradition: "When we want to forget about something, we throw it in the ocean." Peruvian public prosecutor Rafael Aguero Pinto charged that Smith killed Gómez Menéndez in the hotel, stuffed her body into the suitcase, and dumped the suitcase from a boat into the ocean with the assistance of two accomplices. Smith's one-time attorney Don Bailey called the claims "ridiculous", but Peruvian police considered the gathered evidence sufficient to begin proceedings to extradite Smith from the United States. Lead investigator Leon said that the investigation would proceed carefully to ensure that Smith would face trial in Peru. Arrest and extradition Smith was arrested on August 24, 2007, and sent to the Dauphin County Jail for traveling to Peru 11 times without informing his parole officer. A search warrant of a home in Paxtang, where Smith lived with his father, found various belongings from Gómez Menéndez, including cut and torn clothing, sneakers containing sand, and her photo identification. On September 20, Judge Joseph H. Kleinfelter re-sentenced Smith to two to six years in prison for parole violations. He had been transferred to the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Coal Township when the U.S. Attorney's office for the Federal District of Middle Pennsylvania received an extradition request from Peru in January 2008 under a "mutual legal assistance treaty" with the United States. According to the extradition documents, after Smith married Gómez Menéndez in 2007, he became controlling and choked her until she became unconscious during an argument. The documents also alleged that Smith had Muñoz pose as his wife in July 2007 to cancel Gómez Menéndez's mobile phone service through Nextel Communications. In April 2008, the parents of Gómez Menéndez identified their daughter's belongings, which also included a leather handbag, that had been retrieved from Smith's home and transferred by U.S. authorities to a police station in Lima. In November 2008, Peruvian president Alan García Pérez signed the documents seeking the transfer of Smith from United States custody. U.S. Magistrate J. Andrew Smyser ruled on July 14, 2009, that enough evidence was presented to try Smith in Peru. On