Former Leader of One of Honduras’s Largest Drug Cartels Sentenced to 37 Years in US Prison

Former Leader of One of Honduras’s Largest Drug Cartels Sentenced to 37 Years in US Prison
Honduran convicted drug trafficker Noe Montes Bobadilla aka "Tom" is escorted by agents of the Tigres special force of the National Police upon his arrival in Tegucigalpa on June 14, 2017. Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images
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The 35-year-old former leader of a large drug-trafficking organization was sentenced to 37 years in prison by a U.S. district court on April 5, according to the Justice Department.

Noe Montes-Bobadilla, the former leader of one of the largest drug cartels in Honduras, was sentenced in the Eastern District of Virginia for trafficking thousands of kilograms of cocaine bound for the United States.