In record time, three out of four extraditables have been apprehended in Tegucigalpa

Three Hondurans, for whom extradition requests have since been pending USAThe arrests were made in Tegucigalpa and Comayagua on Friday, in an operation in record time after a request from the North American country’s justice system was announced hours earlier.

Three of the detainees had arrest warrants that were eventually served in a police operation “Dragon I”.

The four requested by the United States would be members of international drug trafficking clans.

It was found that four Hondurans requested extradition Northern District Court of California. Honduran mayors Banegas Medina and Jorge Alberto Vieira were detained in two sectors of the department of Francisco Morazán and Elmer Bonilla in the city of Comayagua in the country’s central region, a security ministry spokesman indicated for his part. , Miguel Martinez.

“According to the investigation, these individuals are involved in the sale of fentanyl,” said Martinez, who highlighted that the operation is the first collaboration between Honduras and the United States in the search for people linked to fentanyl trafficking.

The operation was led by the National Directorate of Anti-Drug Police of Honduras with support from the National Directorate of Special Forces, the National Directorate of Border Police Services and the United States Anti-Drug Agency (DEA), he added.

Victor Manuel Vieira, requested for extradition by the United States for drug trafficking, is pending arrest, Martinez said.

The delivery of four new extradition requests comes days after authorities arrested Francisco Roberto Cosenza, former executive director of the Technical Committee of the Population Security Tax.

A former official of the government of extradited former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, is wanted by the US justice system for the crimes of money laundering, conspiracy to launder money and transactions derived from criminal acts.

They are also consistent with the announcement by Judge Kevin Castel, who denied Juan Orlando’s request to postpone the trial scheduled for February 5 in New York’s Southern District Court.