Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
In the hours of this Saturday morning, the authorities mobilized to the capital the 98 sacks containing presumed cocaine that was found inside a cistern which was circulating last night in Roatan.
Until Tegucigalpa also they were transferred on the part of elements of the Technical Agency of Criminal Investigation (Penthouse), El Mayor Jerry Dave Hynds, Efraïm Rigoberto Sants Córdova, Francisco Federico Henríquez Gómez and Jorge Reiniery Rosales Bustillo.
Once in the capital, detainees after an administrative procedure must be referred to the court with national territorial jurisdiction in criminal matters for the respective judicial process.
“The required people were transferred to Tegucigalpa to continue the corresponding criminal process. It is possible that later and gradually other proceedings will arise for this case, but the investigations are still ongoing,” he said. Jorge Galindo, Spokesman for the Attic.
Agents of the department Against Organized Crime and technicians in processing of the crime scene of the Attic carried out the inspection to three automobiles, is so in a cistern to take water where they were transported like driver Jorge Reiniery and his companion Francisco Federico, the 98 sacks were found with the alleged drug. The total amount will be counted after the transfer to the Hernán Acosta Mejía Air Base, in Tegucigalpa.
Meanwhile, behind the tank was Mayor Jerry Hynds aboard a Toyota vehicle, Land Cruiser, double cab, and Sants Córdoba was driving a Toyota Prado van, which were inspected by the Attic, concluding this action in the hours of this Saturday morning.
As it was preliminarily known, the drug load could be at least two tons of cocaine, which means a hard blow to drug trafficking. Each bag would weigh 20 to 25 pounds and the drug would go inside the tank with HAV 9360 plates.
Anti-drug agents received information of the transfer of the drug cargo, they assume that it had arrived by sea and that it was taken to another point where it would be put in another boat bound for Mexico.
Last night, defense attorneys for the mayor were stationed on the outskirts of the naval base in French Harbor and indicated that the official was in his vehicle in a row down the main street of the island when required by members. of the Attic and then was taken to the military base.
Lawyers reiterate that they will show that the mayor has nothing to do with the operation that the investigating agents were doing.