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TWO MORE ALLEGED DRUG TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED
Guatemala, November 15, 2012. In operations conducted today, authorities arrested Luis Javier Flores Flores and Cristian Emanuel Estrada Rodríguez this afternoon in Zone 14 of the capital. These two persons, both from Mexico, are accused of forming part of a criminal structure led by Mexican citizen Ramón Antonio Yánez Ochoa, an alleged drug trafficker. Yánez Ochoa was linked to proceedings and remanded in custody on September 17 along with Juni Fernando Enríquez Monzón, head of security at the Port of Quetzal.
The arrest warrants were issued in relation to charges of money laundering, criminal association and conspiracy to traffic narcotics on an international scale. This morning, Óscar Orlando Padilla Urías, José Adolfo Quiñónez González, Roberto Alonzo Ortíz and Erick Rolando Estrada Monzón were arrested in different departments of Guatemala.
The National Civil Police (PNC), together with the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP) and the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), conducted a total of six operations to arrest the six accused parties.
CICIG supports the Public Prosecutor's Office in the investigation of this case.
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