New York, United States.
Geovanny Fonts Ramirez, Honduran drug trafficker convicted of United States, Will not yet know the reading of his sentence, as a result of the postponement for the October 19. The reading was scheduled for the August 31st.
The postponement dictated by the judge P. Kevin Castel responded to a request from Fuentes’ lawyer, Avraham C. Moskowitz, Who asked for more time to study with the defendant the sentencing application filed by the Prosecutor’s Office and have time to prepare an appropriate response.
“The postponement is necessary to give me the opportunity to review and discuss the presentation of the extensive and detailed sentence presented by the Government with Mr. Fonts Ramírez and to prepare an appropriate response to the Government Memorandum, ”the lawyer wrote in a letter sent to the judge.
The Prosecutor’s Office handed the judge a document from 64 pages in which he details all charges against sources Ramirez and in which he requests that he be sentenced to life imprisonment and to pay $ 161 million.
“The accused trafficked tons of cocaine, committed at least five murders and bribed government officials, including President Hernandez, which contributed to the corrosive cycle of drug trafficking, violence and corruption that has affected Honduras“, Prosecutors drafted in their petition.
A New York jury on March 22 found Fonts Ramirez guilty of drug trafficking, whom U.S. justice considers a partner of the Honduran president in the production and trafficking of tons of cocaine in the United States.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office maintains that Hernández was associated with 2013, When he was a candidate for the presidency, with the drug dealer to keep in operation a laboratory for the manufacture of cocaine that the defendant had opened between 2009 and 2010 on the outskirts of the town of Choloma.
Fonts Ramirez was arrested in Miami in February 2020 in connection with the case against José Antonio “Tony” Hernández, brother of the Honduran president and convicted of drug trafficking in October 2019.