Thus dressed in light blue, accompanied by the agents and with handcuffs on, the mayor of the island of Roatán stands out among the alleged drug traffickers detained in Honduras. Jerry Hynds has been arrested for allegedly escorting a truck carrying hidden drugs.
“He will be accused of the crime of drug trafficking as well as three other people,” says Mario Rivera, spokesman for the Military Police.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, they were arrested on Friday night. The drug they were carrying would weigh about two tons according to local media.
Jorge Galindo, spokesman for the Technical Criminal Investigation Agency points out: “Three vehicles have been intercepted. One of them, a cistern in which 98 bales with alleged cocaine were hidden”
The mayor’s lawyer points out that everything has been a coincidence planned to stop him for wanting to create a Special Economic Development Zone in his municipality, that is, a town that competes with others through laws to attract investment. Drug trafficking takes center stage two months after presidential elections are held in Honduras, where several of the candidates have allegations of corruption or drug trafficking.
The mayor was transferred to the capital, Tegucigalpa, to be processed by authorities with national jurisdiction.
Honduras is in the crosshairs of the United States for accusations of drug trafficking to its main authorities. Tony Hernández, a former congressman and brother of President Juan Orlando Hernández, has been sentenced to life in prison in New York for drug trafficking.
In the United States, Geovanny Fuentes was also sentenced for drug trafficking, whom the US prosecutor’s office considers a partner of the president and assures that, from the government, he facilitated his illicit activities.
Prosecutor Jacob Gutwillig considered Honduras a “narco state.”
Hernández has denied the charges and assures that all the accusations are part of a revenge of drug lords that his government captured or helped to extradite to the United States.
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