The US Requests extradition of Guatemalan arrested in Cotepec on drug trafficking charges

The National Civil Police (PNC) reported that this Sunday, January 21, investigators from the General Subdirectorate of Analysis of Anti-Drug Information proceeded to arrest for purposes of extradition to the United States, Guatemalan Melvin Hilario Estrada Flores, 35 years old, aka. “Taken”.

The detainee was stopped at Cotepec Shopping Center, Quetzaltenango.

According to the PNC, the United States requires it for crimes related to drug trafficking.

Estrada Flores is required to stand trial on charges of committing crimes by a United States District Court.

Authorities charged him with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute five kilograms or more of a mixture and a substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine, with the intent and knowledge that the substance would be illegally imported into the United States.

Also the manufacture and distribution of five kilograms or more of a mixture and substance, containing a detectable quantity of cocaine, with intent and knowledge and having reasonable cause to believe that it will be imported into the country.

The PNC recalled that on January 18, it captured Victor Francisco Gallegos Mayorga, nicknamed “El Toronto”, “El Baudo” or “El Boludo”.

He was arrested in Los Amets, Izabal for crimes related to drug trafficking.

On the 3rd of this month, the arrest of the first extradited person of 2024 was also reported, this is 38-year-old Luis Enrique Ruiz Morales, who was detained by the police in Cecatepequez, Antigua Guatemala.

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