Tegucigalpa
The legal defense of the Honduran leader Geovanny Fonts Ramirez asked the New York Southern District Federal Court impose a condemnation 40 years in prison to his client.
Without minimizing the seriousness of the crimes for which he was convicted Geovanny Fonts Ramirez it is respectfully requested that the mandatory minimum sentence of 40 years in prison is appropriate in this case, the firm notes Moskowitz & Book.
The Honduran faces a minimum sentence of 40 years in prison and a maximum of life imprisonment.
The petition arises a few days before the judge Kevin Castel sentence the Honduran, involved in cocaine trafficking, according to the United States.
the New York Southern District Attorney’s Office has not made his views before the judge, but it is not ruled out that he calls for life imprisonment, as happened with the former Honduran deputy Juan Antonio (Tony) Hernández, Who appears in the same file.
Fuentes was arrested by DEA agents in March 2020 while visiting his children, who live in Orlando, Florida.
Two days later he was charged by the United States Attorney’s Office of conspiring to introduce cocaine into American territory and use weapons of war.
On March 22 this year he was found guilty of both charges after a two-week trial. Fonts’ sentence will be on August 31 at New York Southern District Federal Court.