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The United States attorney requested it United States District Court for the Southern District of New York admit in a process a series of photos presumably from President Juan Orlando Hernández along with drug traffickers.
In federal documents, photos have been completely obscured, but prosecutors say it is Hernández along with the co-conspirators, who were only identified as CC-3 and CC-14.
Federal agents asked Judge Kevin Castel to admit this evidence at trial capo Honduran Geovanny Fuentes Ramírez.
“The photos from CC-4 (Hernández) with CC-14 Y CC-3 are permissible to show the close relationships between CC-4 (Hernández) and his co-conspirators, including the accused, ”the document states.
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Sepal Avraham Moskowitz, Fuentes-Ramírez’s lawyer, asked to postpone the start of the trial for a few days, saying that prosecutors in the case gave him recordings of calls from prison in Spanish and emails that sent him to the week to be translated. and revise. |
In addition, it states that “the photos are further evidence of the accused’s connections to an important and powerful network of conspirators, CC-4 (Hernández), as well as other influential government officials ”.
Prosecutors asked that differently photos of weapons and bundles of dollars found in the social networks of CC-14.
“Witnesses are expected to testify that firearms and chargers are the same types of weapons that the suspect and other co-conspirators used to transport massive amounts of cocaine and be guilty of crime. violence”, Indicates the petition.
In another photo, the narco Geovanny Fuentes appears wearing a bulletproof vest and a military beret and handcuffs. The photos be relevant and permissible to demonstrate the suspect’s important links with officers army and Honduran police officers, whose witnesses will explain that the suspect committed his drug and arms trafficking crimes ”.
Fuentes Ramírez’s trial is scheduled for March 8, but his defense is asking for a one-week postponement.
He was arrested inside Miami in March 2020.