The Honduran National Police captured this Wednesday the Cuban citizen Jorge Marcelo Manso González, whom The US had requested extradition for several years for the alleged crime of drug trafficking.
The capture was made in the Universidad neighborhood of San Pedro Sula, northern Honduras, where the alleged drug trafficker lived, a National Police officer reported.
WE EXPAND | Jorge Marcelo Manso González, an extraditable of Cuban origin, had an arrest warrant since 2009. More details pic.twitter.com/uzeCEp1osL
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Manso González had been requested by a Court in Miami, Florida, where “charges have been filed for crimes related to drug trafficking,” he added.
“This person had fled the United States in 2009 and since that time he has remained a fugitive from justice. The Police Investigation Directorate locates him and makes this arrest warrant effective,” the same source told journalists.
Since 2014, the authorities of the Central American country have extradited to the US more than 50 people accused of drug traffickingmostly Hondurans.
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One of those extradited is the former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandezin April 2022, who in June 2024 received a sentence in New York to 45 years in prison for drug and weapons trafficking.
However, this sentence was interrupted on December 1, when Trump pardoned Hernández, stating that an injustice had been committed against the former president.
