Honduran authorities arrested the head of a violent family drug cartel on Sunday, who is weighing a extradition order issued by the US court.
Herlinda Bobadilla was arrested after an “intense confrontation” with security forces in which one of her children died, Titus Montesreported the director of the National Police, Gustavo Sanchezthrough their social networks.
In an intense confrontation between the @PoliceHonduras and drug traffickers in the mountains of Colon, Herlinda Bobadilla and 3 other people were arrested. Tito Montes passed away. This administration is totally committed to a frontal fight against drug trafficking. @XiomaraCastroZ pic.twitter.com/Nymhz5edAW
– Gustavo Sanchez Velasquez (@hegusave)
May 15, 2022
In the operation, in a mountainous area of the Colón municipality, in the northeast of the country, three more people were captured, the official added without offering further details.
USAwhich accuses the criminal group known as Bobadilla Mountains from drugs traffic to its territory through Mexico and Central America, it also offered a five million dollar reward to those who provide information about the woman and her sons Tito and Juan Carlos Montes, who is still at large.
Another son of Bobadilla, Noé Montes, was arrested in 2017 and sent to the United States where he was sentenced to 37 years in prison.
At the end of April, Honduras extradited former president John Orlando Hernandez to the United States, where he faces charges related to drug trafficking and possession of weapons, accusations he has denied.
On May 10, former Honduran police chief Juan Carlos “El Tigre” Bonilla was extradited to the United States to face charges of drug trafficking.