The police of Guatemala conquered this Saturday in the east, near the border with Honduras, to an alleged drug trafficker wanted in extradition U.S accused of transporting shipments of cocaine from Colombia, the Public prosecutor’s office
Donal Osorio, 34, also known as’BlackHe was arrested during an operation on a highway in the eastern municipality The amates on the basis of an arrest warrant “for the purpose of extradition to the U.Sfor crimes related to drug trafficking, it indicated Prosecution (Public Prosecution Service) in a statement.
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According to the prosecution, Osorio was, at the request of a court in the state of Texas (South), part of a “large-scale drug trafficking organization” that transported shipments of cocaine from Colombia to the United States between 2018 and 2019.
“The investigation has been established Osorio (…) as a member of the organization (…) responsible for transporting, directing, managing and supervising the organization’s drug trafficking activities in Guatemala“added the text.
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Then shipments from Colombia they were brought to the United States for distribution, he added.
Osorio is the fourteenth suspected drug trafficker to have been arrested to date 2021 in Guatemala requested extradition by the American judicial authorities.
According to authorities, large international cartels, with the help of local drug traffickers, are using it Guatemala and the rest of Central America to transport drugs and launder money, activities that influence the criminal violence ravaging the region.
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In accordance with U.S, the 90% of the cocaine reaching that country passes on planes, boats and submarines through Mexico and Central America.