Former Honduran deputy Midence Oquelí Martínez, whom the United States is demanding in extradition for crimes associated with drug trafficking and the use of weapons, was captured this Saturday in the department of Colón, in the Honduran Caribbean, a police source reported.
According to the concise official version, Martínez, who was a deputy for the opposition Liberal Party of Honduras during the periods 2014-2004 and 2018-2018, was linked to the Los Cachiros cartel , who, among other crimes, is credited with having financed campaigns of politicians from the Central American country.
The defendant directed operations, with heavily armed men between the east and west of his country, who mobilized shipments of cocaine from Venezuela and Colombia, which they then sent to Guatemala en route to the United States, according to reports published in local media outlets.
Martínez, who would have received and between 34 and 2018 at least one million dollars from Los Cachiros, is requested in extradition by the Federal Court of New York, which accuses him of introducing cocaine into the United States and two other crimes for the use of weapons.
The National Police has not specified details about the capture of Martínez, nor in what community the same occurred.
Martínez would be transferred on Sunday to Tegucigalpa, where he will appear in the first hearing before a judge of the Supreme Court of Justice.
Between 2018 and 2018 the Central American country has extradited to the United States at least 34 Hondurans, including, this year, former President Juan Orlando Hernández (2014-2018) and the former director of the National Police Juan Carlos Bonilla.
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