Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Josep de l’Trànsit García Teruel, Requested by the United States for drug-related offenses that occurred after February 2012, was extradited this Friday morning from Hernán Acosta Mejía Air Force Base in the capital.
The indictment was filed on him for allegedly responsible for the crime of conspiracy to distribute to at least five kilograms or more of a mixture containing a detectable amount of cocaine, with the intent and knowing that this substance would be imported un To the United States, in violation of Title 21 of the United States Code.
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His transfer to the Hernán Acosta Mejía air base in the capital took place after 8:00 am and under strong security measures. Garcia Teruel was handed over to federal agents of the Drug Control Administration (DEA), who took him to trial before the U.S. civil and criminal justice system.
“After going through a pre-extradition process, the extradition of Josep de l’Trànsit García Terol was coordinated with agents of the Federal Court of the State of Virginia, who was subjected to the base of the request and for a month now the jurisdictional part has been refined “, he informed Melvin Duarte, Spokesman for the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ).
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“It was our responsibility to finalize the necessary coordination with U.S. agents today, this is the 25th delivery process in the United States,” added Duarte, who also commented that toward the last three extradition requests sent by the United States for drug trafficking, on which the judges were already appointed to hear each case.
background
On August 9, Garcia Teruel was captured in San Pedro Sula and later transferred to Tegucigalpa to be presented before an extradition judge.
García Terol, alias El Pipo, was born in Florida, Copán, and since September 30, 2016 had an arrest warrant for the findings of the East Virginia District Court.
According to the accusation presented / displayed in the Federal Court, Garci’a Teruel is a lieutenant of the band of Noah Montes Bobadilla, Extradited to the United States on September 22, 2017. Also, that with Montes they trafficked hundreds of kilos of cocaine from Colombia to the United States and Asia since 2014.