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They condemn Dominican to 16 years in prison for drug trafficking in New York
posted on: Nov 19 2011 10:11 by RDugey. Viewed 44 times.
The Dominican Omar Adonis Guzmán Martínez was today sentenced to 16 years in prison after plead guilty for their involvement in a cocaine smuggling network from Ecuador to the United States.UU. through the port of New York and interfering with a witness, reported the federal Attorney Preet Bharara.
According to a press release from the Office of the Prosecutor, Guzmán Martínez was arrested in Venezuela in August 2010 and extradited to the United States.United States, where the last may pleaded guilty.
The Dominican was part of a group of 14 suspected of smuggling were arrested in this case and all have been declared guilty.
The investigation which led to the arrests began in 2006 with a view to arresting members of a "violent organization of traffickers" drug which Guzman Martinez was one of its members and which had the help of "corrupt stevedores" in the city of Guayaquil, in Ecuador, and Staten Island (New York).
Guzman u000aMartínez evaded arrest in 2008 in his country and year and half the authorities tracked it in Venezuela.
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