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Hern\u00e1ndez Participated in the Importation of At Least 185,000 Kilograms of Cocaine; Secured Bribes to Honduran Officials; and Coordinated Two Drug-Related Murders<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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WASHINGTON, DC \u2013\u00a0 (Press Release)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Juan Antonio Hern\u00e1ndez Alvarado, a\/k\/a \u201cTony Hern\u00e1ndez,\u201d 42, was sentenced to life in prison for cocaine-importation, weapons, and false-statements offenses and ordered to pay $138.5 million, the DEA announced Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Juan Antonio Hern\u00e1ndez Alvarado<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

HERN\u00c1NDEZ is a former Honduran congressman and the brother of Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez, the current president of Honduras. <\/span><\/p>\n

HERN\u00c1NDEZ was convicted on October 18, 2019, following a jury trial before U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel, who also imposed today\u2019s sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cExploiting a high-ranking position in government to wield the power of the state to support drug trafficking is as nefarious as it comes,\u201d said Special Agent in Charge Wendy C. Woolcock. \u201cThe conviction and sentencing of Tony Hernandez is a reminder there is no position powerful enough to shield you from facing justice when you violate U.S. drug laws by sending tons of cocaine to our country. As important as this conviction is to the people of the United States, it is also important to the citizens of Honduras who Hernandez purposely put in harm\u2019s way for his own personal gain. Today\u2019s sentencing is a victory for the rule of law and we are grateful to our federal and international partners who made this possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As reflected in court documents and other evidence, <\/span>HERN\u00c1NDEZ, along with his brother Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez, played a leadership role in a violent, state-sponsored drug trafficking conspiracy. <\/span><\/p>\n

Over a 15-year period, HERN\u00c1NDEZ manufactured and distributed at least 185,000 kilograms of cocaine that was imported into the United States. <\/span><\/p>\n

HERN\u00c1NDEZ commanded heavily armed members of the Honduran military and Honduran National Police; he sold machineguns and ammunition to drug traffickers, some of which he obtained from the Honduran military; he controlled cocaine laboratories in Colombia and Honduras; he secured millions of dollars of drug proceeds for Honduras\u2019s National Party campaigns in connection with presidential elections in 2009, 2013, and 2017; and he helped cause at least two murders. <\/span><\/p>\n

HERN\u00c1NDEZ made at least $138.5 million through his drug trafficking activities, money he was ordered to forfeit in connection with Tuesday’s sentencing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s Drug Trafficking Conduct<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

HERN\u00c1NDEZ\u2019s drug trafficking career started in about 2004 when he began providing sensitive law enforcement and military information to major Honduran drug traffickers Victor Hugo Diaz Morales, a\/k\/a \u201cEl Rojo,\u201d and Hector Emilio Fernandez Rosa, a\/k\/a \u201cDon H.\u201d HERN\u00c1NDEZ provided Diaz Morales with information about, among other things, operations of the Honduran Navy; efforts by the United States to train Honduran Air Force pilots to fly at night to conduct anti-narcotics operations; military radar capabilities so that cocaine plane shipments could avoid detection; and interdiction efforts by certain Honduran National Police officials. <\/span><\/p>\n

Over the course of their relationship, HERN\u00c1NDEZ helped Fernandez Rosa and Diaz Morales distribute approximately 140,000 kilograms of cocaine.<\/span><\/p>\n

By 2008, HERN\u00c1NDEZ\u2019s narcotics trafficking had expanded, and he was also manufacturing his own cocaine in a laboratory he controlled near El Aceitico, Colombia. HERN\u00c1NDEZ told his co-conspirators that some of the cocaine manufactured at his laboratory was stamped with his initials \u201cTH,\u201d and a photograph of a kilogram of \u201cTH\u201d stamped cocaine was intercepted during the course of the investigation. HERN\u00c1NDEZ supplied his co-conspirators with tons of cocaine that was produced at his laboratory. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Beginning in about 2008, HERN\u00c1NDEZ partnered with Amilcar Alexander Ardon Soriano, a former Honduran drug trafficker and mayor, under the protection of National Party leadership. HERN\u00c1NDEZ and Ardon Soriano secured protection from investigation, arrest, and extradition through massive bribes paid to high-ranking politicians, including, among others, Porfirio \u201cPepe\u201d Lobo Sosa and Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez. <\/span><\/p>\n

In connection with the 2009 national elections, drug proceed bribes paid in exchange for protection included: (i) Ardon Soriano paying $2 million to support Lobo Sosa\u2019s campaign for presidency and Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s reelection campaign for a position in the Honduran congress; (ii) Diaz Morales paying $100,000 to HERN\u00c1NDEZ to support National Party campaigns; and (iii) Ardon Soriano bribing three congressmen at the direction of Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez so that the congressmen would support Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s efforts to become president of the congress. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Juan Orlando Hernandez was named president of the congress in early 2010. HERN\u00c1NDEZ, Ardon Soriano, and their co-conspirators, including co-defendant Mario Jose Calix Hern\u00e1ndez, a Honduran deputy mayor, and codefendant Mauricio Hern\u00e1ndez Pineda, a then-member of the Honduran National Police and HERN\u00c1NDEZ\u2019s cousin, took advantage of National Party protection to continue transporting huge quantities of cocaine. <\/span><\/p>\n

Once or twice a month in 2010, HERN\u00c1NDEZ sent Ardon Soriano cocaine shipments consisting of approximately 300 kilograms; and once a month in 2011 and 2012, HERN\u00c1NDEZ sent Ardon Soriano maritime cocaine shipments ranging in size from 700 to 1,600 kilograms. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2013, HERN\u00c1NDEZ was campaigning to become a congressman and Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez was campaigning to become president. <\/span><\/p>\n

Around this time, Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez solicited $1.6 million in drug proceeds from Ardon Soriano to support himself and National Party campaigns. <\/span><\/p>\n

Also during the 2013 campaign, HERN\u00c1NDEZ accepted $1 million from former Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaqu\u00edn Archivaldo Guzm\u00e1n Loera, a\/k\/a \u201cChapo,\u201d to support Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s presidential campaign. During meetings with Chapo in Honduras, HERN\u00c1NDEZ promised to provide protection for members of their conspiracy and their cocaine shipments through Honduran territory if Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez was elected president.<\/span><\/p>\n

In November 2013, HERN\u00c1NDEZ was elected to the Honduran congress and Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez was elected president. <\/span><\/p>\n

Between 2015 and 2017, HERN\u00c1NDEZ and Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez continued to secure large sums of drug proceeds for National Party campaigns in exchange for protecting drug traffickers. <\/span><\/p>\n

For example, approximately six months before the November 2017 national elections, HERN\u00c1NDEZ and Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez met with Ardon Soriano in Cop\u00e1n, Honduras. <\/span><\/p>\n

During that meeting, HERN\u00c1NDEZ and Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez solicited $500,000 and 1.6 million Lempira in drug proceeds from Ardon Soriano to \u201cfinance\u201d the National Party\u2019s campaign in the Cop\u00e1n and Lempira Departments. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2018, HERN\u00c1NDEZ continued to engage in large cocaine shipments with Nery L\u00f3pez Sanabria, another significant Honduran drug trafficker. <\/span><\/p>\n

Honduran authorities arrested and detained L\u00f3pez Sanabria in connection with a traffic incident and recovered, among other things, several drug ledgers in a secret compartment of his car. <\/span><\/p>\n

One of the ledgers was labeled \u201cHard Work\u201d 2018, and reflected a 650-kilogram cocaine shipment with HERN\u00c1NDEZ. <\/span><\/p>\n

At least one of the other ledgers seized by Honduran law enforcement in 2018 contained references to \u201cJOH,\u201d initials used by Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez. L\u00f3pez Sanabria was murdered in a Honduran prison, as described below, shortly after his drug ledgers were introduced at HERN\u00c1NDEZ\u2019s trial.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s Weapons Possession and Acts of Violence<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

HERN\u00c1NDEZ used firearms throughout his drug trafficking. HERN\u00c1NDEZ\u2019s personal weapons included a modified AR-15, an Uzi inscribed with the name of Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez, \u201cPresidente de la Rep\u00fablica,\u201d and an M60 belt-fed machinegun. HERN\u00c1NDEZ also sold machineguns and ammunition to drug traffickers. <\/span><\/p>\n

In 2010, Diaz Morales obtained between 4,000 and 6,000 rounds of assault rifle ammunition from a member of the Honduran National Police who told Diaz Morales he obtained the ammunition from HERN\u00c1NDEZ. <\/span><\/p>\n

In 2012, HERN\u00c1NDEZ supplied 40 M16s to another drug trafficker.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HERN\u00c1NDEZ also coordinated at least two drug-related murders. <\/span><\/p>\n

In 2011, HERN\u00c1NDEZ and Ardon Soriano caused the murder of a rival drug trafficker named Franklin Arita in the Cop\u00e1n Department. <\/span><\/p>\n

HERN\u00c1NDEZ directed Juan Carlos \u201cTigre\u201d Bonilla Valladares, the regional Honduran National Police chief responsible for the Cop\u00e1n Department at the time, to arrange for Arita\u2019s murder, which was executed by assassins using two 40-millimeter grenade launchers, M16s, and Israeli-made Galil assault rifles. <\/span><\/p>\n

In 2013, HERN\u00c1NDEZ worked with other drug traffickers, including Ardon Soriano, to murder a drug trafficker named Chino because HERN\u00c1NDEZ was concerned that Chino might cooperate with law enforcement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s Obstruction and Other Efforts to Influence the Investigation<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

HERN\u00c1NDEZ made false statements to law enforcement and the Court during the course of this investigation and prosecution, and he obstructed justice. <\/span><\/p>\n

HERN\u00c1NDEZ (i) traveled to the United States in 2016 and made false statements to law enforcement about his drug trafficking activities; (ii) made false statements about his assets during a January 2019 bail hearing; (iii) caused sensitive witness information to be disclosed in Honduras in violation of a protective order in October 2019; and (iv) made false statements about his assets during an application for appointed counsel in February 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eight days after the jury found HERN\u00c1NDEZ guilty, on October 26, 2019, L\u00f3pez Sanabria \u2013 the drug trafficker from whom were seized the ledgers bearing HERN\u00c1NDEZ\u2019s name and Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s initials \u2013 was murdered at a maximum security prison in Honduras. L\u00f3pez Sanabria\u2019s attorneys confirmed to the media that one of HERN\u00c1NDEZ\u2019s family members and an investigator hired by HERN\u00c1NDEZ\u2019s family had made unauthorized visits to L\u00f3pez Sanabria prior to HERN\u00c1NDEZ\u2019s trial.<\/span><\/p>\n

L\u00f3pez Sanabria had rejected their efforts to obtain information about whether he was cooperating with the DEA; and L\u00f3pez Sanabria had planned to cooperate with the DEA against Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez and HERN\u00c1NDEZ. Leaked surveillance video of the murder shows L\u00f3pez Sanabria talking to the warden of the facility, Pedro Ildefonso Armas, while a masked man walks past and unlocks a nearby door. <\/span><\/p>\n

Several individuals who are believed to be prisoners then storm through the door and shoot and stab L\u00f3pez Sanabria to death. <\/span><\/p>\n

On December 9, 2019, a group of unknown assailants murdered Jose Luis Pinto, a lawyer who represented L\u00f3pez Sanabria. <\/span><\/p>\n

Three days later, on December 12, 2019, a group of unknown gunmen on motorcycles murdered Ildefenso Armas, the warden of the facility in which L\u00f3pez Sanabria was murdered, in Tegucigalpa.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s Co-Conspirators<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

On August 8, 2019, Fernandez Rosa was sentenced in this District to life in prison for, among other things, his participation in HERN\u00c1NDEZ\u2019s cocaine importation conspiracy and for committing 18 murders. <\/span><\/p>\n

Several of HERN\u00c1NDEZ\u2019s other co-conspirators, including, among others, Hern\u00e1ndez Pineda, Calix Hern\u00e1ndez, Bonilla Valladares, Arnaldo Urbina Soto, Carlos Fernando Urbina Soto, and Miguel Angel Urbina Soto, are also charged in this District with firearms and drug trafficking offenses based on, among other things, their participation in HERN\u00c1NDEZ\u2019s cocaine importation conspiracy. <\/span><\/p>\n

On February 12, 2020, Hern\u00e1ndez Pineda surrendered in this District and he is awaiting trial. The government of Honduras has not extradited Calix Hern\u00e1ndez, Bonilla Valladares, or the Urbina Sotos. <\/span><\/p>\n

On March 22, 2021, HERN\u00c1NDEZ\u2019s co defendant and co-conspirator Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez was convicted at trial in this District of drug trafficking and weapons offenses. <\/span><\/p>\n

Fuentes Ramirez\u2019s sentencing is scheduled for June 22, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The investigation was handled by DEA\u2019s Special Operations Division Bilateral Investigations Unit, the New York Strike Force, and the Tegucigalpa Country Office, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s Office of International Affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n

This case is being handled by the Office\u2019s Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Amanda L. Houle, Matthew Laroche, and Jason A. Richman are in charge of the prosecution.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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