The police of Guatemala capture this Saturday in the east, near the border with Honduras, To an alleged drug trafficker extradited by United States accused of disrupting cocaine shipments since Colombia, Reported the Prosecutor’s Office.
Donal Osorio, 34, alias “Black“, He was arrested during an operation on a road in the eastern municipality of the Amates according to a “capture order” for extradition purposes United States“For drug – related offenses,” he said Public Ministry (Prosecutor’s Office) in a statement.
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According to the prosecution, Osorio, requested by a court in the state of Texas (south), was part of a “large-scale narcotics trafficking organization” that between 2018 and 2019 transported shipments of cocaine from Colombia to to the United States.
“The investigation identified Osorio (…) as a member of the Organization (…) responsible for transporting, directing, managing and supervising the organization’s drug trafficking activities in Guatemala“, Added the text.
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Subsequently, the loads from Colombia they were brought to the United States for distribution, he added.
Osorio is the fourteenth alleged drug trafficker arrested so far 2021 in Guatemala demanded extradition by American justice.
According to authorities, large international cartels, with the help of local drug traffickers, use a Guatemala and the rest of Central America to transport drugs and launder money, activities that affect the criminal violence that plagues the region.
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In accordance with United States, el 90% of the cocaine that arrives in this country passes to small planes, boats and submarines by Mexico and Central America.