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A jury of New York will make its final judgment on the judgment taken to Honduran drug trafficker Geovanny Fuentes Ramírez.
Yesterday, Friday, the jury, consisting of 12 people, withdrew from the courtroom to deliberate on any evidence submitted by the Public prosecutor’s office and the legal defense of the Honduran during the judgment.
The jury decides whether Fuentes Ramírez is guilty or innocent of the charges The procedural parts and the jury will be summoned this Monday at 9:30 am, where she is ultimately expected to hear the verdict.
Conclusions
In the final arguments of the trial, prosecutors stated that Geovanny Fuentes “murdered those who could and bought those who could not.”
The prosecutor Michael Lockard He stated that Ramírez met Juan Hernández twice in 2019 and “paid him a bribe at both meetings.”
“Juan Orlando Hernández not only wanted the suspect’s money (in bribes), he also wanted access to the suspect’s cocaine (…) to be able to export it” to U.S by Puerto Cortés, the largest port in Honduras, near the laboratory of cocaine installed in Cerro Negro, Lockard said in his closing statement of the Fuentes trial.
“Access to the defendant’s laboratory could be worth millions, and the protection of Juan Orlando Hernández was invaluable to the defendant,” he added.
He confirmed that the President gave Fuentes the contact of his brother Tony Hernández. Tony Hernández, like Juan Orlando Hernandez, was one of the accused’s associates in the drug trade. He is the man who made the drug trafficking for Juan Orlando, who took bribes from Los Cachiros’ drug money, he is the man who sent kilos of cocaine with his initials, ”said Lockard.
He recalled that no drugs were found in the police operation in 2011, he said that the defendant had been warned about the raid, that bribes were paid to a corrupt high-ranking judicial officer, Julio César Barahona, and that Fuentes was later kidnapped, tortured and tortured. murdered along with his partner Melvin Metro Sandres to the police officer who sent him. “The laboratory did not close because the defendant reached an agreement with Juan Orlando Hernandez and his brother… to keep it going, ”Lockard said.
President Hernández has denied all charges made by the prosecutors.