The arrest came amid a series of raids and inspections along the Atlantic coast.
Mayor Wilmer Manolo Wood of Brus Laguna was arrested for allegedly working with drug cartels to smuggle cocaine to the US by boat and plane.
Mayor Wilmer Manolo Wood of Brus Laguna, in the remote Mosquitia region that borders Nicaragua, was taken into custody, said Jorge Galindo, a spokesman for the Honduran prosecutors’ office. He is accused of working with three cartels: Los Piningos, Los Yanez, and Los Amador.Galindo said that independently of the three cartels, Wood personally received 30 tonnes of cocaine and moved it through Honduras so it could be transported to the US.
The public ministry said that Wood was involved in the docking of 15 boats that came from Colombia and passed through Honduras on their way to the US. Local authorities believe Mexican drug cartels supplying the US bring cocaine through Central America and Mexico after it is carried from Colombia by boat or plane to the Mosquitia region and other parts of Honduras’ Atlantic coast.
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