Honduran ex-president appears at first extradition hearing on US drug charges

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Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez (second from left) spent the night in police custody and will be held at a police special forces base until his next hearing on March 16.

Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando

Hernandez (second from left) spent the night in police custody and will be held at a police special forces base until his next hearing on March 16.

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Handcuff and shackle, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez arrive at his first extradition hearing on Wednesday, where he was meet by dozens of boisterous fans as well as embolden critics who assail what they call his narco-dictatorship.

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Hernandez governed

the Central American nation for eight years until last month and now faces a U.S. extradition request issued Tuesday that seeks to force him to face drug trafficking charges in U.S. courts.

“You are not alone! There is a great political party that supports you,” one supporter of Hernandez’s right-wing National Party told local broadcaster TSI.

A scuffle broke out between both supporters and critics in front of the justice ministry where Hernandez’s hearing took place, including pushing and shoving plus some rock throwing, but police quickly separated them.

The judge overseeing the extradition case has scheduled an evidentiary hearing on March 16, according to Judiciary spokesman Melvin Duarte.

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The judge ordered that Hernandez remain detaine until then at a police special forces base.

Hernandez, 53, was arrested by police on Tuesday, in a spectacle carried live on local television, after the ex-president and one-time Washington ally pledged his cooperation.

The judge ordered that Hernandez remain detaine until then at a police special forces base.

detaine until then at a police special forces base.

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A U.S. Embassy document seen by Reuters alleged that Hernandez was part of an operation to transit massive amounts of cocaine from Colombia and Venezuela via Honduras to the United States. The document further claims that he receive millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for providing protection to traffickers.

Hernandez has denied all wrongdoing

and has previously sought to cast aspersions on prosecutors’ evidence while also highlighting his past support from U.S. officials.

The judge ordered that Hernandez remain

detaine until then at a police special forces base.

 

Last year, a U.S. judge sentence Hernandez’s brother to life in prison plus 30 years in a major cocaine trafficking case.

The judge ordered that Hernandez remain detaine until then at a police special forces base.

 

“Yes we did! Yes we did! They’re taking the corrupt narco-dictator,” said a member of the leftist Libre party of new President Xiomara Castro, who gave his name only as Manuel.

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Three charged in Saskatoon after search warrant turns up illicit drugs

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Saskatchewan RCMP’s federal and serious organized crime(FSOC) officers located and seized illicit drugs from a

Shillington Crescent residence in Saskatoon.

On April 27, officers executed a search warrant as part of an investigation into an alleged breach of court conditions. Saskatoon Police Service assisted in the execution of the search warrant.

Officers found 25.6 grams of fentanyl, 32.8 grams of methamphetamine and 4.2 grams of cocaine as well as cash, a weapon and drug trafficking paraphernalia.

READ MORE: Drug problem growing in smaller centres, rural areas of Saskatchewan: RCMP

Three individuals were arrested at the residence.

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Jenna Beamish, 49, Mandi Lee McTaggart, 45 and Dylan Bendall, 30, have all been charged with two counts of drug possession for the purpose of trafficking, among other charges.

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Beamish and McTaggart have been remand into custody until their next appearance in Saskatoon Provincial Court on May 2.

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