Honduras Elite Police for the “Tigres” escort Drug Trafficker designated as a “Kingpin” Emilio Fernandez Lopez, alias “Don H” in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Héctor Emilio Fernández was arrested in an operation staged by several local police forces and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Sabillon told reporters.
The suspect “has (had) an extradition request from the United States” pending against him since 2013 and is accused of heading an organization “devoted to drug trafficking,” said the police official.
Sabillon refused to rule out “some kind of relationship” between Fernández and the Valle Valle brothers – Luis Alonso, Miguel Arnulfo and José Inocente – who are in prison in Honduras and are also wanted by the United States for drug trafficking.
The Valle Valle brothers, who were arrested late last week, were identified in August as drug kingpins by the U.S. Treasury Department via legislation known as the “Kingpin Act.”
Their sister, Digna Azucena, was arrested in July and is in a South Florida jail.
The United States also has requested the extradition of Juving Alexander Peralta, another alleged Honduran drug trafficker, who was arrested in Tegucigalpa last month.
Peralta is considered to be one of the closest collaborators of Carlos Arnoldo Lobo, who on May 8 officially became the first Honduran to be extradited to the U.S. and in September was found guilty of drug trafficking crimes in federal court in Miami.
Honduras is used as a way-station or conduit through which South American drug traffickers send their illegal products – mainly cocaine – to the United States by air and sea. So far this year, the Central American nation’s authorities have seized more than three tons of illicit substances.
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