Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The mayor of the Honduran island of Roatan, Jerry Hynds, and three other people arrested in an operation in which authorities confiscated 98 bundles of alleged cocaine, Will appear this Saturday before a judge in Tegucigalpa and will be charged with drug trafficking.
The spokesman for the Technical Agency for Criminal Investigation (Atic), Jorge Galindo, He said the four detainees will be brought before the national territorial court in criminal matters and “charged with the offense of aggravated drug trafficking.”
Hynds and the other three people were arrested last Friday night during the confiscation of at least 98 bundles of alleged cocaine hidden in a cistern carrying water and which was apparently escorted by two of the detainees, including the mayor, he said. Galindo.
The operation was coordinated by the Public Ministry through the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Organized Crime (Fescco) and the Atic.
related: The drug, the mayor of Roatan and three other detainees arrive in Tegucigalpa
Agents of the department Against Organized Crime and technicians in processing of the crime scene of the Attic carried out the inspection to three automobiles, is so in a cistern to take water where they were transported like driver Jorge Reiniery and his companion Francisco Federico, the 98 sacks were found.
Meanwhile, behind the tank was Mayor Jerry Hynds aboard a Toyota vehicle, Land Cruiser, double cab, and Sants Córdoba was driving a Toyota Prado van, which were inspected by the Attic, concluding this action in the hours of this Saturday morning.
As it was preliminarily known, the drug load could be at least two tons of cocaine, which means a hard blow to drug trafficking. Each bag would weigh 20 to 25 pounds and the drug would go inside the tank with HAV 9360 plates.
Anti-drug agents received information of the transfer of the drug cargo, they assume that it had arrived by sea and that it was taken to another point where it would be put in another boat bound for Mexico.
Last night, defense attorneys for the mayor were stationed on the outskirts of the naval base in French Harbor and indicated that the officer was riding in his car in a row down the main street of the island when required and then he was taken to the military base. Lawyers insist they will prove that the mayor has nothing to do with the operation that the investigating agents were doing.
Pronunciation of the Liberal Party
The Central Executive Council of the Liberal party, In the face of the arrest of his supporters, today demanded that the bodies of search and administration of justice respect the rights and guarantees of mayors José Armando García Andino, Of Ojojona, Francisco Morazán, i Jerry Dave Hynds, of Roatan, Bay Islands.
He also called for the principle of presumption of innocence of local heads of government who have been arrested to prevail in the context of the investigations carried out into their cases.
photos: Transfer of the cocaine shipment, the mayor of Roatan and three other suspects
“It is noteworthy that the arrest of these mayors happens just when the country is preparing for an election campaign that undoubtedly poses a great threat to the continuity in power of the National Party,” he said. the Central Executive through a statement.
The Liberal Party recalled that the two mayors arrested between Thursday and Friday are part of the group of local leaders who, in the absence of a vaccine acquisition program by the Government, appealed to international solidarity and went receive donation of vaccines against covid- 19 given by the President of the Savior, Nayib Bukele.
“In the specific case of the municipality of Ojojona, it is also powerfully striking that the tax requirement was motivated without having previously cited it, as was his right, and the arrest warrant was executed the same day in In the same way, the apprehension was carried out by the Attic and not by the police unit which by law had to carry it out and was ordered to be arrested when other measures were taken to replace the prison, “they said. the liberals.