TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras.- The Honduran drug trafficker Geovanny Fonts Ramirez was involved in shipping more than 21,000 kilograms of cocaine to the United States for more than a decade.
“The defendant is responsible for at least more than 21 tons of cocaine, and probably much more, which does not include relevant conduct attributed and admitted by his co-conspirators,” U.S. prosecutors revealed.
During the trial held last March, the head of the Cachiros, Devis Rivera, revealed that sources Ramirez participated in three shipments that reflected 1,350 kilograms of cocaine.
But sources to produce its own cocaine in a narcolaboratorio located in the mountainous zone of Omoa, Courteous.
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According to prosecutors’ estimates, the lab produced between 200 and 300 kilograms of cocaine per month with cocaine imported from Colombia.
Although laboratory operations were temporarily interrupted by a raid in 2011, in 2012 it was again productive until the arrest of sources, Obtaining a production during this decade 17.2 tons of cocaine.
Although U.S. prosecutors acknowledge that “this is a conservative estimate that does not take into account an additional 185 tons of cocaine that is possibly attributable to the defendant.” According to the document, “the defendant is responsible for the 185 tons of cocaine for which he Court has found ‘Tony’ Hernandez guilty, Co-conspirator of the accused, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment “.
sources will be convicted on August 31.
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