Lawyer: Honduran government could be behind prison murder
Posted October 28, 2019 8:47 pm.
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MEXICO CITY — The brutal murder of an alleged Honduran drug trafficker with a potentially critical piece of evidence against the president has the government pointing the finger at other drug traffickers. The man’s lawyers suggest the government may have been responsible.
A maximum security prison’s surveillance camera captured the savage killing of Nery Orlando López Sanabria Saturday morning while he stood in a hallway chatting with the prison’s director.
López – who had changed his identity to Magdaleno Meza Fúnes and once faked his own death — gained attention earlier this month. The contents of ledgers he was carrying in a secret compartment with guns, grenades and cash were made public in a New York federal courtroom at the drug trafficking trial of Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernández, the president’s brother.
Christopher Sherman, The Associated Press
