Guatemala City.
An alleged Guatemalan drug trafficker claimed for extradition by the United States, where he is accused of exporting shipments of cocaine from South America, was arrested on Saturday by the authorities, the Central American Prosecutor’s Office reported.
The Public Ministry (Prosecutor’s Office) coordinated with the police the arrest for the purpose of extradition of Joan Carles Chacón Alvarado, Also known as “the devil“Or” Mister 305, “Juan Luis Pantaleón, the institution’s head of information and press, told reporters.
The official detailed that Chacón Alvarado is required to appear in a Texas court for the crimes of conspiracy to illegally send cocaine to the United States, As well as to manufacture and distribute the same drug to export it illegally to this country.
The investigation identified “a large-scale drug trafficking organization” operating from the south to the north of the Americas, he said.
During the inquiries it was determined that Chacón Alvarado was responsible for the “transportation, direction, handling and supervision of the organization’s drug trafficking activities in Guatemala,” he said.
The detainee also has an arrest warrant in force in Guatemala for the crimes of storage, trafficking and illicit drug trade and conspiracy to murder.
The alleged drug trafficker is the sixteenth arrested in 2021 in Guatemala at which he is demanding extradition from US justice.
According to authorities, large international cartels, with the help of local drug traffickers, use Guatemala and the rest of Central America to transport drugs and launder money, activities that affect the criminal violence plaguing the region.
According to the United States, 90% of the cocaine that arrives in this country goes to planes, boats and submarines through Mexico and Central America.