A leader of a Guatemalan drug
trafficking organization was sentenced today to 23 years in prison for his
participation in an international drug trafficking conspiracy, announced
Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s
Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge Wendy Woolcock of the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Operations Division.
Waldemar Lorenzana-Lima was
sentenced by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in the District of
Columbia following an Aug. 18, 2014, guilty plea to his participation in an
international drug trafficking conspiracy.
The court also ordered Lorenzana-Lima to forfeit $50,949,000.
As Lorenzana-Lima admitted in
connection with his guilty plea, from March 1996 to November 2007,
Lorenzana-Lima was a member of a drug trafficking organization that would
receive, inventory, and store large quantities of cocaine from Colombia at
Lorenzana-Lima’s properties in Guatemala, for eventual importation into Mexico
and the United States. The court
concluded at sentencing that Lorenzana-Lima’s conduct qualified him as an “organizer
or leader” of the drug trafficking organization within the meaning of the
applicable sentencing guidelines.
On April 27, 2010, the
Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control designated
Lorenzana-Lima and his sons, Eliu Lorenzana-Cordon and Waldemar
Lorenzana-Cordon, as specially designated narcotics traffickers. Pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin
Designation Act, this designation applied as a result of their significant
roles in international narcotics trafficking, their significant ties to the
Sinaloa Cartel, and their use of family business and agricultural holdings in
Guatemala as a front to aid in the northbound movement of illegal drugs through
Central America.
Pleads guilty on Aug. 18, 2014, and gets sentenced in 2020 SIX YEARS later?
ReplyDeleteCanadian girl
Yes darling!
DeleteYes
DeleteProbably snitching the whole time to get a reduced sentence...
DeleteHe only has 17 more years to go, but will be out SOONER with good behavior and a pat on the back.. 💰 talks EVEN in the good ok U.S of A
DeleteThis guy was Chapos longtime compadre in Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteExcelent another gets to go to the slammer.
ReplyDeleteAnd it’s not gonna change a damn thing.. LOL.
DeleteHas the US govt ever succeeded in getting those money they order forfeited for foreign nationals?
ReplyDeleteAs a matter of fact, yes they have. Frozen assets.
DeleteI want to know this also
DeleteIthey always get their money back on the end so it makes no difference if they freeze the assets or NOT
Delete10:46 past US and Mexican governments have enabled and been allied to narcs getting nabbed now, remember the Kaibiles used to be favorites in the wars against insurgencies invented to get to kill indians estimated to be on their way become revolutionaries after centuries of oppression had left them no other hope, in the opinion of US foreign policy creators and intelligentsias.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, The School of the Kaibiles, alias School of the Assassins had to show work and justify its existence, show work and create some millionaires from their collaborative.
642 that called extridition.
Delete12:15 the Guatemalan indians murdered by efrain rios Montt and his general of the kaibiles otto Perez molina will never be extradited, even if their remains were to be found.
DeleteSame with the massacred victims of El Mozote, La Macarena or Mexico.
Why some of them are autorized to continue? At least in Chiquimula...
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