U.S. Prosecutors Charge Honduran President’s Police Ally in Drug Ring
Manhattan federal prosecutors have charged the previous main of the Honduran Nationwide Police in a cocaine-trafficking conspiracy case, element of a sweeping investigation into drug-planet corruption in Honduras that also implicates the country’s president.
In a grievance unsealed Thursday in Manhattan federal courtroom, prosecutors and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration mentioned Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares employed his posture as a significant-rating regulation-enforcement official to guard a team of politically related drug traffickers….