Ex-Honduras president's son and police allegedly conspired to bring drugs to US

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Ex-Honduras president's son and police allegedly conspired to bring drugs to US

US prosecutors say officers ensured the safe passage of cocaine by capitalizing on bribes along with leaked information about investigations and checkpoints

Associated Press in New York

Wednesday 29 June 2016 17.45 EDT

Six Honduran national police officers have bene charged with conspiring with the son of a former Honduran president to import drugs into the United States.

US attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan announced the charges, saying the officers were accused of participating “in a massive drug trafficking conspiracy” that flooded US cities with cocaine. None of the officers are in custody.

Bharara said the officers agreed from 2004 to 2014 to ensure the safe passage of tons of cocaine through the jungles of Honduras to the US by capitalizing on bribes to public officials along with leaked information about investigations and law enforcement checkpoints.

Prosecutors said the defendants were members of the Policia National de Honduras when they supported Lobo’s drug activities. They said Lobo in June 2014 introduced two individuals he understood to be Mexican drug traffickers to the six defendants as he tried to provide security and logistical support for a purported multi-ton shipment of cocaine that he thought would bring him more than $1m in profits.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/29/honduras-police-charged-importing-drugs-porfirio-lobo-sosa-son

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. K & Fuckin' R

[madokie]

2. When Ronnie the St reagan

walked into the white house in '81 the drugs from south of the border came flowing in. I was a pot smoker and around here in ok if you wanted to have anything to smoke for 6 months out of the year prior to that you had to grow your own but when the republiCONs took over the executive branch the drugs came flowing in with them.

Cocaine was hardly ever seen around here before that but soon after you could find it on about any street corner in our two big cities.

I never was a coke head although I did do a few lines but I had friends who did. going up wasn't my thing, down and weed was though. I've been straight from toking for years now due to my health, lungs just won't let me smoke anymore plus age caught up with me, grand pa now and all that jaz.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Six Honduran police officers indicted on U.S. drug charges

Wed Jun 29, 2016 5:56pm EDT
Related: U.S., World

Six Honduran police officers indicted on U.S. drug charges

NEW YORK | By Nate Raymond


Six members of the Honduran National Police were indicted on Wednesday on U.S. charges they participated in drug trafficking activities and conspired with a son of former Honduras President Porfirio Lobo to import cocaine into the United States.

The indictment, filed in federal court in Manhattan, said the officers agreed to take bribes to help two informants posing as drug traffickers transport a multi-ton load of cocaine through Honduras so it could be sent to the United States.

The two informants, who worked on behalf of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, were introduced in 2014 to the six officers by Fabio Lobo, a son of the former Honduran president, the indictment said.

Lobo, who prosecutors said agreed to provide the informants with security and logistical support in the purported drug deal, was arrested in 2015 in Haiti and pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to import cocaine into the United States.

More:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-honduras-drugs-idUSKCN0ZF2HV?rpc=401

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Fabio Lobo, son of recent Honduran President Porfirio Lobo.

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[MisterP]

4. keep in mind this is for whose sake the DoS did everything it could to keep the legitimate president

out of office, and who was hailed as ending the 2009 coup and as turning the economy/security/human rights around