Honduran Cocaine Kingpin Gets 37 Year Sentence For Pouring Drugs Into US - Justice Dept.

WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 05th April, 2019) Longtime Honduras drugs cartel chief Noe Montes-Bobadilla has received a sentence of 37 years in jail for smuggling thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the United States, the US Department of Justice said in a news release on Friday.

"The former leader of a large-scale Honduran drug trafficking organization was sentenced today to 37 years in prison for trafficking thousands of kilograms of cocaine bound for the United States," the release said. "Noe Montes-Bobadilla, 35, was sentenced by US District Judge Liam O'Grady."

According to court documents, Montes-Bobadilla led a drug-trafficking cartel named after him that was also known as "Los Montes.

" The documents described it as one of the largest drug cartels in Honduras.

"To protect his cocaine-trafficking operations, Montes-Bobadilla bribed law enforcement officers and officials, and engaged in numerous acts of violence, including murder... Montes-Bobadilla... distributed thousands of kilograms of cocaine destined for the United States," the release said.

Los Montes dominated the drug-trafficking activity in the area of Francia in Honduras and received shipments of cocaine sent via boats, clandestine aircraft and submarines from their Colombian suppliers, the Justice Department said.