Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Juan Antonio Hernández’s main partners and associates are listed by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
In the co-conspirators section of Tony Hernandez, la DEA Name the men who are close to the condemned and what happened to each of them.
What the DEA regrets in the letter is that “the government of Honduras did not extradite Cálix Hernández, Bonilla Valladares or Urbina Soto.”
Mario José Cálix Hernández is the former Vice Mayor of Gracias, Lempira. According to DEA reports, the crimes charged against him are conspiracy to import drugs and obtain large caliber weapons for their trade. The extradition request has already been submitted by the United States government.
Second on the DEA list Juan Carlos Tigre Bonilla Valladares, former director of the Honduran National Police.
The Lawyer for the Southern District of New York He charged him in April 2020 with conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States and gun-related crimes involving the use and possession of machine guns and destructive devices.
According to the DEA file, Tigre Bonilla, a former head of the National Police, allegedly abused his position in law enforcement to play a key role in a violent international drug trafficking conspiracy. federal tax Geoffrey S. Berman.
Bonilla Valladares oversaw the transhipment of tons of cocaine shipments bound for the United States. He used machine guns and other weapons and took part in extreme acts of violence. One of these acts was the murder of a rival human trafficker promote the conspiracy ”.
Between 2003 and 2020, several drug trafficking organizations in Honduras and elsewhere worked together, and with the support of certain prominent public and private individuals, including Honduran politicians and law enforcement officials, prosecutors said.
So far, the Honduras Supreme Court has not confirmed whether there is an order extradition for the Bonilla Tiger.
The other the DEA is waiting for is former mayor Yoro Arnaldo Urbina Soto, who has been sentenced to 16 years in prison in Honduras for money laundering. Urbina Soto was arrested on July 27, 2014 on suspicion that he was responsible for drug trafficking, but was acquitted for this crime in Honduras.
A judge has already authorized his extradition to the United States, but he must first serve his sentence in this country. They are also accused Carlos Fernando and Miguel Ángel Urbina Soto.