Narco Drama: Honduras Ex-Prez JOH Got 45 Years Now Martinez Turcios Says He Has More Witnesses / Martínez Turcios dice que tiene más testigos

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by Matthew Russell Lee, Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Jan 30 – In the closing arguments on March 6, AUSA Tarlow said that narco trafficking had grown under JOH. On March 7, out of the hearing of the jury and for then the Press, JOH's lawyer Stabile said he'd heard different overnight.

From who?

The defendant's wife he said.

Was this just a play for a mistrial?

Later on March 8, the verdict, here- then the book Narco Drama in English then Spanish.

On August 9, 2024, this Honduras Congressman's guilty plea: "Plea entered by Midence Oqueli Martinez Turcios (1) Guilty as to Count 1."

Narco Drama book / audiobook in Spanish here

On December 16 a "Fatico" hearing continued, thread here

More analysis on X for Subscribers here and with translation into Spanish here on Substack here

On January 30 his lawyer wrote in asking to re-open the hearing to put on more witness, who read about the December 12 and December 16 hearings, seemingly from Inner City Press, via OnceNoticias, "Midence Oquelí Martínez Turcios has a hearing in which cooperator Devis Leonel Rivera implicated him in murder," reported American journalist Matthew Russell Lee"

The case is US v. Martinez Turcios,
18-cr-499 (Kaplan)

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