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Just In : Powerful Politician Wanted By US For Cocaine Trafficking Captured
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Midence Oqueli Martinez Turcios
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A former Honduran lawmaker who spent years on the run avoiding a US extradition order for alleged cocaine trafficking has been captured, according to the Central American country’s security minister.
Midence Oqueli Martinez Turcios, 62, was apprehended on Saturday, Ramon Sabillon told local station Radio America.
Martinez was a lawmaker for the centrist Liberal Party from 2010 to 2018.
He had been on the run since 2018 after a New York court requested his extradition, accusing him of working with the Los Cachiros cartel to traffic cocaine to the United States between 2004 and 2014.
