New York, United States.
After a two-week trial and deliberations that lasted a day and a half, the 12-member jury unanimously decided that the Honduran Geovanny Fuentes Ramírez is guilty of conspiracy send cocaine to the United States and two other costs weapons related in a court in New York.
After reading the verdict, according to Univision, one of Fuentes’ sons who came to court started crying, so he asked the court to speak to his son: “God is going to do us justice, you know all this is a lie, “the defendant cried out. Fuentes added that” it will be all right, “before kneeling and saying a prayer asking for strength for him and his family.
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25 Hondurans have been convicted of drug trafficking in the United States |
The New York Times journalist and contributor, Emily Palmer, indicated on his social networks that after the verdict, Geovanny Fuentes raised his hand and got an interpreter, asking his family to visit him, citing humanitarian reasons.
Ramirez sources was arrested in Miami in February 2020, in connection with the case against José Antonio “Tony” Hernández, who was found guilty of drug trafficking in October 2019 and whose sentence will be announced on March 30 by Judge Kevin Castel, the same who chaired the trial of Geovanny Fuentes.
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According to the prosecution’s report, Fuentes Ramírez and drug trafficker Melvin Sandres, aka “ Metro, ” sold cocaine in Miami in the first decade of this millennium until, fearing being discovered, they returned to Honduras, where Fuentes Ramírez, with the aid. of “Metro,” a cousin of the leaders of Los Cachiros, began working with the cartel to help them transport drug shipments from Colombia to the Guatemalan border on their way to Mexico and later to the United States.
During the trial, a prosecutor recalled the transport of three shipments totaling 1,500 kilos of cocaine. “But the defendant was not satisfied with protecting other people’s cocaine, he wanted to be the leader, he wanted to be the one who bought and sold the cocaine himself,” Lockard told the court.
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The prosecution insisted that this is the reason that prompted Fuentes Ramírez to buy and sell cocaine directly and open a drug lab to treat and convert basic cocaine imported from Colombia into cocaine with the aim of increasing profits.
He defended the lab with automatic weapons, assault rifles, and grenade launchers, a weapon he also used to protect Los Cachiros’ drug shipments when he was working with them, according to what emerged.