Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Juan Antonio Hernández’s main partners and collaborators are on the list of the United States Drug Control Administration (DEA).
In the co-conspirators section of Tony Hernandez, the DEA names the men close to the sentenced and what has happened to each of them.
What the DEA regrets in writing is that “the Government of Honduras has not extradited Cálix Hernández, Bonilla Valladares or Urbina Soto.”
Mario José Cálix Hernández is the former deputy mayor of Gràcies, Lempira. According to DEA reports, the crimes he is charged with are conspiracy to import drugs and obtain large-caliber weapons for his trafficking. The extradition request has already been issued by the United States Government.
The second on the DEA list is Joan Carles Tigre Bonilla Valladares, former director of the Honduran National Police.
the New York Southern District Attorney’s Office he accused him in April 2020 of conspiring to import cocaine into the U.S. and weapons-related crimes involving the use and possession of machine guns and destructive devices.
According to the DEA file, Tigre Bonilla, a former head of the National Police, allegedly abused his law enforcement charges for playing a key role in a violent international drug trafficking conspiracy, the federal prosecutor Geoffrey S. Berman.
“Bonilla Valladares oversaw the transhipment of several-ton cocaine cargoes to the United States. He used machine guns and other weapons to achieve this and participated in acts of extreme violence. Among those acts was the murder of a rival trafficker, per promote conspiracy “.
Between 2003 and 2020, several drug trafficking organizations in Honduras and elsewhere worked together, and with the support of certain prominent public and private individuals, including Honduran politicians and law enforcement officials, prosecutors say.
So far the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras has not confirmed whether there is order of extradition for the Bonilla Tiger.
The other one waiting for the DEA is former mayor Yoro Arnaldo Urbina Soto, sentenced in Honduras to 16 years in prison for money laundering. Urbina Soto was arrested on July 27, 2014 on charges of drug trafficking, but in Honduras he was acquitted of the crime.
A judge has already authorized his extradition to the United States, but he must first serve his sentence in that country. They are also accused Carlos Fernando and Miguel Ángel Urbina Soto.