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The Public Ministry of Honduras launched this Monday an operation in the north of the country called Catagua, aimed at “dismantling a criminal organization linked to Sinaloa Cartel
The Public Ministry of Honduras launched this Monday an operation in the north of the country called Catagua, aimed at “dismantling a criminal organization linked to Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico”.
The operation is led by the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized crime (FESCCO) and the Drug Enforcement Directorate (DLCN) and takes place in the departments of Cortes, Atlantis and Colon, all in the Caribbean, and Yoro, the State Ministry said in a statement.
According to the official version Public Ministry of Hondurasthis is “a structure that has been under investigation for a year and whose participation in the crime drug trafficking internationally, therefore it is planned to execute nine arrest warrants against its main members.”
Four departments appear on the route, which from Gracias a Dios in the east in the Caribbean through Santa Barbara and Copan in the west is used drug dealers which have been operating in Honduras since the end of the last century.
Participating in the operation drug prosecutors FESCCO, together with 92 DLCN detectives and 114 agents of the Military Police of Public Order (PMOP), who carried out 18 raids, inspection and seizure of two companies, 13 properties and 58 vehicles, the latter for its transfer to the Directorate of Seized Property (UASI), highlights the message.
The same source clarified that, based on the investigation materials, it was possible to establish the order of the gang’s activities in the country and its connections with Mexican drug traffickers the Sinaloa cartel, “where he has a team in charge of transporting drugs into that country.”
The group also has a “security and killer on the territory of the country, as well as by controlling and limiting access to the sectors where their leaders live.”
Honduran authorities They also determined “the extent to which the persons under investigation cooperated with the above-mentioned criminal group, having been able to confirm the involvement of the persons under investigation in the crime of aggravated drug trafficking.”
The prosecutor’s office said that one of the documented cases of drug trafficking activity is the seizure of 20 kilograms of drugs in September 2022. cocaine and more than $65,000 that were found hidden inside a false compartment of a heavy vehicle intercepted by DLCN in Santa Rita, Yoro Department, for which two men identified as Elmer Antonio Garcia and Osman Jair Santos were prosecuted.
The territory of Honduras is used by South American drug traffickers who They transport drugs to the USA.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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