Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
A judge set for the Tuesday, January 28, at 10:00 a.m., the first audience in the extradition process which follows the Honduran José Rafael Sosa Méndez, recently requested by the South District Court of Florida, U.S.
The Power of attorney He reported on January 13 that Sosa Méndez is serving a sentence in Honduras for a crime of illegally carrying a weapon. According to information from the authorities, José Rafael Sosa Méndez was captured on March 6, 2017 by illicit association and illegal carrying of weapon, but he was only imprisoned for the last crime.
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Case of Arnold Peralta At the time, he was linked to the crime against him footballer Arnold Peralta, issued in December 2016 in La Ceiba.- – |
In August 2019, the Directorate for the Fight Against Drug Trafficking (Dlcn), through the Operation “Pegasus”, raided 19 homes in Atlántida and Colón of relatives of José Rafael Sosa Méndez in search of evidence of the commission of the crime of drug trafficking and related crimes.
Case on drug trafficking
The actions began after the Dlcn received a complaint on March 18, 2016 against José Octavio Sosa Méndez, who was appointed as a member of an organization dedicated to the transport of drugs from La Mosquitia to La Ceiba, said a statement from the Public ministry.
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The Dlcn established with the investigations that this organization involves it with drug seizures carried out outside the Honduran territory: more than 800 kilos of cocaine on October 3, 2015 on the shores of the Republic of France, which was transported aboard a sailboat manned by Hondurans, and in July 2017 approximately one ton was confiscated of cocaine on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua.
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