New York, United States.
This Monday at 9:30 am, New York time, the trial against the Honduran Geovanny Fonts Ramírez, accused by the American justice of drug trafficking in this country, is scheduled.
The trial predicted by Judge Kevin Castel will take place in Room 23B and there will be an additional room in Room 11D at the U.S. Courthouse Thurgood Marshall.
Fuentes has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the United States and use weapons of war. He was arrested on Saturday, March 1, 2020 at Miami, Florida airport.
The trial of Fonts Ramírez becomes more relevant because a series of evidence and testimonies involving state officials, military and police in drug trafficking will be discussed.
The United States Attorney’s Office requested the New York Southern District Federal Court to admit in the trial a series of photographs in which the defendant appears with people who have been designated co-conspirators, among them the president Joan Orlando Hernández.
One of the witnesses will be Devis Leonel Maradiaga, former leader of Los Cachiros, taken in the United States, after negotiating his collaboration with the DEA.
new witness
On March 1, the prosecution reported that it met with a previously undisclosed civilian witness, who recently traveled to the United States from Honduras, and whom they are now proposing to testify. in the trial under a pseudonym.
“The defense is totally opposed to allowing this witness to testify at trial, which is scheduled to begin on March 8. The late disclosure of this testimony makes it impossible for the defense to conduct an investigation into the merits of its case. witness, “the lawyer stated in his motion Avraham C. Moskowitz, defender of Fonts Ramirez.