{"id":175792,"date":"2022-05-16T15:45:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T07:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=175792"},"modified":"2022-05-16T15:46:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T07:46:32","slug":"honduran-police-arrest-drug-cartel-leader-wanted-by-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=175792","title":{"rendered":"Honduran police arrest drug cartel leader wanted by US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2022\/05\/05\/19\/LaChinda.jpeg?quality=75&amp;width=982&amp;height=726&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"<p&gt;Herlinda Bobadilla, who is known as La Chinda, is accused by officials of leading a criminal family that transports cocaine from Honduras to the US.<\/p&gt;\"\/><figcaption>Herlinda Bobadilla, who is known as La Chinda, is accused by officials of leading a criminal family that transports cocaine from Honduras to the US<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TEGUCIGALPA, May 16 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Honduran police have captured Herlinda Bobadilla, leader of a drug trafficking group for whom the United States had offered a 5-million-U.S.-dollar reward, the Honduran National Police reported Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police said on social media that the arrest occurred after an &#8220;intense confrontation&#8221; between officers and alleged drug traffickers in a mountainous area of the northern Colon department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the operation, Bobadilla&#8217;s son, Tito Montes Bobadilla, also wanted by the U.S., was killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, the U.S. sentenced another member of the family, Noe Montes Bobadilla, to 37 years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Montes Bobadilla cartel, one of the largest in Honduras, was created in the 1990s, and it allegedly manages a drug trafficking network that extends through Colombia, Central America, Mexico to the United States. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEGUCIGALPA, May 16 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Honduran police have captured Herlinda Bobadilla, leader of a drug trafficking group for whom the United States had offered a 5-million-U.S.-dollar reward, the Honduran National Police reported Sunday. The police said on social media that the arrest occurred after an &#8220;intense confrontation&#8221; between officers and alleged drug traffickers in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175792"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175795,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175792\/revisions\/175795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}