NEW YORK, USA.- The main partners and collaborators of Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernandez are on the waiting list of the United States Drug Control Administration (DEA).
In the “co-conspirators of ‘Tony’ Hernandez “, the to give he makes it very clear who the men close to the president’s sentenced brother are Juan Orlando Hernández and what has happened to each of them.
the to give regrets in writing that “the government of Honduras he has not extradited Cálix Hernández, Bonilla Valladares or Urbina Soto “.
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Who are these actors that the US administration is eagerly calling for to continue scouring the mafias that control drug trafficking in Honduras?
According to reports from the to give, Mario José Cálix Hernández is the former Deputy Mayor of Gracias, Lempira. The crimes charged against him are conspiracy to import drugs and obtain large-caliber weapons for his trafficking. The extradition request has already been issued by the Court of the Southern District of New York, United States.
This is one of the key men to follow the research process against all those involved in the activities he developed “Tony” Hernandez, but strangely his extradition has not been executed.
The second on the list of the to give is Juan Carlos “El Tigre” Bonilla Valladares, former director of the Honduran National Police.
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The Federal Court of Manhattan accuses him of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States and crimes related to weapons involving the use and possession of machine guns and destructive devices.
According to the file of the to give, “El Tigre” Bonilla, excap de la National Police Honduran woman allegedly abused her law enforcement positions to play a key role in a violent international drug trafficking conspiracy, the federal prosecutor has said Geoffrey S. Berman of the Southern District of New York.
Bonilla Valladares oversaw the transhipment of several-ton cocaine cargo destined for the United States, 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 to promote the conspiracy.
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Approximately 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.
These received loads of several tons of cocaine sent to Honduras from, among other places, Colombia and Venezuela through air and sea routes, and to transport drugs westward to Honduras to the border with Guatemala and eventually to United States.
the to give indicates that Bonilla Valladares, in coordination with Joan Orlando Hernández Alvarado and others, it also provided members of its conspiracy with confidential information from law enforcement to facilitate cocaine shipments, including information on air and sea ban operations.
So far, the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) of Honduras has not confirmed whether there is an extradition order for “El Tigre” Bonilla.
To the other waiting for the to give is the former mayor of Yoro, Arnaldo Urbina Soto, closely linked to “Tony” Hernandez according to his investigations.
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Urbina Soto has an extradition order, but to avoid being sent to the United States he was prosecuted in Honduras for the crime of money laundering where he was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Urbina Soto was arrested on July 27, 2014 on charges of drug trafficking, but in Honduras he was acquitted of the crime.
According to the judge’s ruling, Urbina Soto will be extradited once he has served his sentence Honduras.
On August 8, 2019, Héctor Fernández Rosa, better known as “Don H”, was sentenced to life in prison for, among other things, his involvement in the cocaine import conspiracy of “Tony” Hernandez and for committing 18 murders.
Among the other co-conspirators of “Tony” Hernandez is included Maurici Hernández Pineda, cousin of the Hernández brothers, and ex – officer of the National Police. Carlos Fernando Urbina Soto and Miguel Ángel Urbina Soto are also charged with possession and use of firearms and drug trafficking.
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