Guatemala City
The police of Guatemala captured near the border with Honduras an alleged drug trafficker sued by U.S. justice, the tenth detainee required in extradition for this country during the first two months of 2021, the Prosecutor’s Office has reported.
After a police operation on a road in the eastern municipality of Els Amates, the Guatemalan Willian Chacón, 43, was arrested “for offenses of drug trafficking“, Juan Luis Pantaleón, spokesman for the Public Ministry (Public Prosecutor’s Office), informed reporters.
Chacón, also known as “cartridge“He is” required “for extradition by a Texas state court (southern United States) charged with cocaine trafficking, the official said.
According to the investigation, the detainee directed between 2018 and 2019 the transfer of cocaine for “a drug trafficking organization” operating from South America to the United States, he added.
With the arrest of Chacón, the anti – narcotics forces of Guatemala total 10 arrests of people extradited by US justice during 2021.
On Friday, police arrested alleged drug trafficker Gersom Muñoz, aka “Duke” or “Duko,” in the town of Hope, in the west of the country, to appear in a Texas court on drug trafficking charges.
According to authorities, large international cartels, with the help of local drug traffickers, use Guatemala and the rest of Central America to transport drugs and launder money, activities that affect the criminal violence that plagues the region.
According to the United States, 90% of the cocaine that arrives in this country goes to planes, boats and even submarines through Mexico and Central America.