NEW YORK, UNITED STATES.-The third day of the trial against the Honduran drug trafficker Geovanny Fonts took place this Wednesday in New York with the testimony of Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, ex-leader of The Cachiros.
This is the minute by minute told by The New York Times reporter, Emily Palmer, a renowned reporter on crime and drug trafficking. Post times are local time.
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8:46. Day 3 of the Geovanny Fonts Trial — The court is now meeting for the day, and we will begin with the purpose of the testimony of Brian Fairbanks, a DEA agent. Here I am talking about his testimony about @JuanOrlandoH yesterday, and who we could hear later today. -Insert video summary-.
9: 33.- The defense of Geovanny Fonts asked the DEA agent if he found messages from Fonts advocating for the resignation and replacement of @JuanOrlandoH as president. The agent confirmed that there was a text chat like this, but could not remember the reason for the desired waiver.
10: 10.- On the third day of the trial of Geovanny Fonts, @JuanOrlandoH again saying he’s not involved in drug trafficking … talking about Los Cachiros. The first (and so far only) two witnesses in this trial have been DEA agents, not members of Los Cachiros.
11:11.– Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, former head of the Cachiros, has just been called to the podium to testify at the trial of Geovanny Fonts.
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12: 05.- Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga said he met Fuentes through a hitman named Metro (for his links to metropolitan police). They met face to face for the first time at a gas station in Cortés. From GF: “I understood that the police worked for him,” Devis said.
3:46. Devis said he began working with GF because of his close ties to the police, including Commissioner Martinez of the National Police. They met several times in person, at a gas station owned by Devis and at a nightclub owned by Metro, which worked with GF.
3: 50.- At the beginning of their relationship, Fonts told Maradiaga that he had killed a boat mechanic who had money, detailing a horrific murder: he regretted torturing him, cutting his fingers, “and he had finally shot him twice. of pity in the head, sir. “
3:54.– Maradiaga said he thought Fuentes had told him about the mechanic’s murder because, “The defendant wanted to gain my trust.” And it worked. He thought at the time, “Geovanny is a good person to have on our side. He can kill whoever we want if we ask him to.”
3: 59.- Geovanny Fonts and Maradiaga worked together on their first cocaine shipment around 2011, including several jobs with The Valleys, using clandestine leads, one led by Fredy Renán Nájera, a member of Congress for Honduras.
4: 04.- Before their first dispatch together, at a meeting on a farm near the Tiger, Fonts told Maradiaga not to worry about security: “He said that if there was a checkpoint, he would call Commissioner Martinez. and I would remove him there. ” They would continue working with the Valleys.
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4: 08.- When a Maradiaga narco was arrested, Commissioner Martínez and Leopoldo “Pol” Crivelli, mayor of Choloma, intervened. After the mayor called the police, “They let him go right there.” As for the money they had confiscated, “That money was returned to him.”
4: 14.- The jury was dismissed from the day at 4:31 a.m. – in the middle of the story: Fonts contacted Maradiaga once again to tell him that he was worried that his laboratory “on a hill, in the department of Cortés” was being investigated, Maradiaga recalled with a laugh.
4: 19.- Sources had learned of the San Pedro Sula police investigation through Mayor Crivelli’s son. Devis and Fonts met several times to discuss it. But eventually, police raided his lab. (And we end up there before we hear the details).