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the United States Attorney’s Office asked the New York Southern District Federal Court admit in a trial a series of pictures presumably from President Juan Orlando Hernandez alongside drug traffickers.
In federal documents, the pictures appear completely obscured, but prosecutors say it is Hernandez along with the co-conspirators, who were only identified as CC-3 and CC-14.
Federal agents asked Judge Kevin Castel to allow such evidence to be evacuated during the trial. boss Honduran Geovanny Fonts Ramirez.
“Les pictures of CC-4 (Hernández) with CC-14 i CC-3 are admissible to show the close relations between CC-4 (Hernández) and his co-conspirators, including the defendant, “the document states.
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know- Avraham Moskowitz, Fuentes-Ramirez’s lawyer, asked for the postponement of the start of the trial for a few days, as he said that the prosecutors in the case handed him this week recordings of calls from prison made in Spanish and emails that need to be translated and revised. |
He further states that “the photographs are further proof of the defendant’s connections to an important and powerful network of conspirators, CC-4 (Hernández), as well as other influential public officials “.
Prosecutors called for others to be accepted pictures of guns and bundles of dollars that were found on social media CC-14.
“Witnesses are expected to testify that firearms and magazines are the same types of weapons that the defendant and other co-conspirators used to transport huge amounts of cocaine and participate in acts of violence“, Indicates the request.
In another of the photographs is the narco Geovanny Fonts wearing a bulletproof vest and beret for military use and handcuffs. the pictures are relevant and admissible to show the defendant’s significant connections with officers military and Honduran police, witnesses will explain what the defendant used to commit his drug and gun trafficking offenses. “
Fonts Ramirez’s trial is scheduled for March 8, but his defense has requested a one-week postponement.
He was arrested in Miami in March 2020.