[ad_1]
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS
Authorities of the United States, through the Office of the Prosecutor of the Southern District of New York said Tuesday the Honduran deputy for the Department of Colón, Midence Oquelí Martínez Turcios conspiracy to bring drugs to the United States, as well as other gun-related crimes.
Geoffrey S. Berman, Federal Attorney for Southern District of New York and Raymond P. Donovan, the Special Agent in charge of the Special Operations Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration United States (DEA), announced that the charges had been filed in Manhattan Federal Court against the Honduran congressman.
According to the information of DEA, held by the Federal Court of Manhattan the Honduran deputy received More than a million dollars in bribes and other payments from the leaders of Los Cachiros, who allegedly financed their political campaign.
Drug Trafficking Crimes
According to the authorities, the charges include the cocaine import plot in the United States and the weapons-related offenses, which involve the use and the possession of machine guns and destructive devices for which extradition is requested.
The Manhattan US attorney, Geoffrey S. Berman, said he alleges that these defendants include a Honduran congressman and a former Honduran mayor. All are accused of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States.
Arnaldo Urbina Soto former mayor of Yoro, as well as Carlos Fernando Urbina Soto and Miguel Ángel Urbina Soto badociated with Los Cachiros
Of his On the side, the special agent in charge, Raymond P. Donovan explains that "the DEA and our partners continue to expose drug-related corruption around the world, fueling violence and violence." And, while revoking the rule of law, these elected Honduran officials and their badociates would have conspired with the Sinaloa Cartel and would have flooded the American communities with enormous amounts of deadly poison. "
He added that " DEA is awaiting his extradition to United States to face American justice and answer for his alleged crimes."
And that is that according to the accusations of Federal Court this was from 2004 to 2014 that "several drug trafficking organizations in Honduras and elsewhere worked together, and with the support of Martínez Turcios, the accused of Urbina Soto and others, to receive hundreds of kilograms of cocaine sent to Honduras by air and in this sense, according to information held by the authorities, shipments of cocaine from western Honduras to the border with Guatemala and finally imported into the United States "in coordination with senior members of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico."
According to US authorities, Martínez Turcios acted as partial owner of one of the bleaching facade companies in Mexico. Money of Los Cachiros: Ganaderos Agricultores del Norte, SA de RL De CV
Among the details of the information, which links the deputy to Los Cachiros, stresses that "he has esco personally handling some cargoes of cocaine, handling heavily armed security forces to protect large quantities Los Cachiros who were members of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and helped to plan and actively participated in acts of violence; "
It should be noted that, the parliamentarian Martínez Turcios becomes the second member of the Honduran Congress accused by the DEA for the crime of drug trafficking, because in January 2018, the deputy Fredy Renán Nájera Montoya He has also been accused of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States and to have committed related offenses.
Source link
