TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Fabio Lobo, son of former Honduras president Porfirio Lobo, was arrested in an anti-drug operation in Haiti, with the help of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Admin-istration (DEA), the Honduran government said yesterday.
Lobo was detained on Wednesday and has been extradited to New York, where he will appear before a judge today, the Honduran government said in a statement.
It did not provide further details of why Lobo was detained. A spokesperson for the DEA was not immediately available to comment. Porfirio Lobo was elected president of Honduras in late 2009 after a military coup ousted then-president Manuel Zelaya. Lobo left office in January 2014, when Juan Orlando Hernandez assumed the presidency.
“I hope that my son is innocent, but if he is guilty, he should take responsibility for his actions,” Lobo said yesterday, after a meeting with Hernandez.
