NEW YORK, USA. –The third day of the trial of the Honduran drug trafficker Geovanny Fuentes took place this Wednesday in New York with the testimony of Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, former leader of The Cachiros.
This has been told minute by minute by the New York Times journalist, Emily Palmer, a well-known reporter of crime and drug trafficking. The times of the publications correspond to the local time.
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8: 46.- Day 3 of the Geovanny Fuentes Trial – The court is now meeting today and we will begin with the end of the testimony of Brian Fairbanks, a DEA agent. Here I talk about his testimony about @JuanOrlandoH yesterday, and who we could hear from later today. -Insert summary video-.
9: 33.- Geovanny Fuentes’ defense asked the DEA agent if he had found messages from Fuentes advocating the resignation and replacement of @JuanOrlandoH as president. The agent confirmed that there was such an SMS chat, but could not recall the reason for the desired dismissal.
10: 10- On the third day of Geovanny Fuentes’ trial, @JuanvanLeeuwen again saying he’s not involved in drug trafficking … speaking of Los Cachiros. The first (and so far only) two witnesses in this trial were DEA agents, not members of Los Cachiros.
11:11.– Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, former head of the Cachiros, has just been summoned to testify at the trial of Geovanny Fuentes.
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12: 05.- Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga said he met Fuentes through a hit man named Metro (due to his ties to the metropolitan police force). They first met in person at a gas station in Cortés. From GF: “I understood that the police worked for him,” said Devis.
3: 46.- Devis said he started working with GF because of his close ties to the police, including National Police Commissioner Martinez. They met in person several times, at a Devis gas station and at a nightclub owned by Metro, which worked with GF.
3:50, – Early in their relationship, Fuentes Maradiaga said he had murdered a boat mechanic who owed money and described a gruesome murder: he regretted torturing him, cutting off his fingers, ‘and finally finished him off with two pitying shots to the head. Sir. “
3:54.– Maradiaga said he thought Fuentes had told him about the mechanic’s murder because, “The suspect wanted to gain my trust.” And it worked. He thought at the time: “Geovanny is a good person to have on our side, he can kill whoever we want. If we ask for it.”
3:59. Geovanny Fuentes and Maradiaga teamed up on their first cocaine shipment around 2011, including several jobs at Los Valle using clandestine clues, one run by Fredy Renán Nájera, a Honduran congressman.
4: 04.- Before their first dispatch together, at a meeting at a farm near El Tigre, Fuentes told Maradiaga not to worry about safety: “He said if there was a checkpoint he would call Commissioner Martinez. and delete it there. ” They would continue to work with Los Valle.
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4: 08.- When a Maradiaga narco was arrested, Commissioner Martínez and Leopoldo “Polo” Crivelli, Mayor of Choloma, intervened. After the mayor called the police, “They let him go there.” As for the money they confiscated, “They gave him that money back.”
4: 14.- The jury was fired at 4:31 PM. – in the middle of the story: Fuentes contacted Maradiaga again to tell him that he was concerned that his laboratory was being examined “on a hill, in the department of Cortés,” Maradiaga recalled with a laugh.
4: 19.- Fuentes had learned of the police investigation in San Pedro Sula through Mayor Crivelli’s son. Devis and Fuentes met several times to discuss it. But in the end, the police raided his laboratory. (And we were done there before we heard the details.)