TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduras has arrested two leaders of a major Central American drug gang responsible for transporting cocaine into the United States, the national police said yesterday.
Brothers Miguel Arnulfo and Luis Alonso Valle Valle were detained in a police operation in the country’s eastern Copan state, near the border with Guatemala, police chief Ramon Sabillon told reporters in the capital.
The brothers are wanted on drug charges by the U.S. government, which may seek their extradition.
In August, the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, part of the Treasury Department, placed the Los Valles gang on its list of major drug traffickers and described their organization as one of the top drug gangs in Central America.
