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Trial begins today against alleged drug dealer Geovanny Fuentes in New York

New York, USA.

This Monday at 9:30 a.m., New York time, the trial is scheduled against the Honduran Geovanny Fuentes Ramírez, accused by the US justice of drug trafficking to that country.

The judgment that the judge Kevin Castel will take held in Room 23B and there will be an additional room in Room 11D at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse.

Fuentes has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the United States and the use of weapons of war. He was arrested on Saturday, March 1, 2020 at the Miami, Florida airport.

The Fuentes Ramírez trial becomes more relevant because it will discuss a series of tests and testimonies that implicate State officials, the military and the police in drug trafficking.

The United States Attorney’s Office requested the United States Court for the Southern District of New York admit at trial a series of photographs in which the accused appears with persons who have been designated co-conspirators, including the President Juan Orlando Hernández.

One of the witnesses will be Devis Leonel Maradiaga, former leader of Los Cachiros, imprisoned in the United States, after negotiating his collaboration with the DEA.

New witness

On March 1, the Prosecutor’s Office reported that it met with a previously undisclosed civil witness, who recently traveled to the United States from Honduras, and whom they now propose to testify. at trial under a pseudonym.

“The defense is totally opposed to allowing this witness to testify at the trial, which is scheduled to begin on March 8. The late revelation of this witness makes it impossible for the defense to carry out an investigation on the merits of his testimony, “the lawyer stated in his motion. Avraham C. Moskowitz, defender of Fuentes Ramírez.

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