New York, United States.
After a two-week trial and deliberations that lasted a day and a half, the 12-member jury unanimously ruled that Honduran Geovanny Fonts Ramirez is guilty of conspiring to to Send Cocaine to the United States | and two charges related to weapons in a New York court.
After reading the verdict, according to Univisión, one of Fonts’ children who came to court began to cry, then he asked the court for a moment to talk to his son: to do justice, you know this is all a lie, “the defendant exclaimed as he cried. Sources added that “I’m going to be fine,” before kneeling and praying a prayer asking for strength for him and his family.
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25 Hondurans have been convicted in the United States of drug trafficking |
The journalist and contributor to The New York Times, Emily Palmer, Has indicated on his social media that after the verdict, Geovanny Fonts raised his hand and was provided with an interpreter, through which he asked his family to visit him, citing humanitarian reasons.
sources Ramirez was arrested in February 2020 in Miami, in connection with the case against José Antonio “Tony” Hernández, who was found guilty of drug trafficking in October 2019 and the sentence will be announced on March 30 by Judge Kevin Castel, the same one who presided over the trial of Geovanny Fonts .
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According to the prosecution, during the first decade of this millennium, Fonts Ramírez and fellow drug dealer Melvin Sandres, alias “Metro”, sold cocaine in Miami until, fearing to be discovered, they returned to Honduras, where Sources Ramirez, with the help of “Metro”, cousin of the leaders of the Cachiros, began working with the cartel to help them transport shipments of drugs from Colombia to the border with Guatemala on their way to Mexico and , later, in the United States.
A prosecutor recalled during the trial the transportation of three shipments totaling 1,500 kilograms of cocaine. “But the defendant was not satisfied protecting someone else’s cocaine, he wanted to be the leader, he wanted to be the one to buy and sell the cocaine for himself,” Lockard told court.
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The prosecution argued that this was the cause that pushed Fuentes Ramirez to buy cocaine directly and sell it and to open a drug lab to treat base cocaine imported from Colombia and transform it into cocaine with the intention of increasing the benefits.
He defended the lab with automatic weapons, assault rifles and grenade launchers, a weapon with which he also protected the drug shipments of Los Cachiros when working with them, it emerged.