Former Honduras President's Son Pleads Guilty to Drug Smuggling
Former Honduras President's Son Pleads Guilty to Drug Smuggling
Published 16 May 2016 (1 hours 59 minutes ago)
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The son of former Honduras President Porfirio Lobo pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, a year after his arrest in Haiti as part of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration probe.
Fabio Lobo, 44, faces a mandatory 10-year minimum prison term when he is sentenced on Sept. 15, and could get up to life behind bars following his plea to a single count of conspiring to import cocaine.
At a hearing in federal court in Manhattan, Lobo admitted to participating in a drug trafficking scheme that a federal prosecutor said also involved Honduran police officers.
"I knew that it was illegal," Lobo said.
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Son of ex-Honduran president pleads guilty to US drug charge
May 16, 2:25 PM EDT
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) -- The son of former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo pleaded guilty Monday to a cocaine trafficking conspiracy charge, admitting teaming up with drug traffickers and Honduran police to try to ship cocaine into the United States.
Fabio Lobo, 44, spoke through an interpreter in Manhattan federal court as he confessed to a conspiracy that stretched from 2009 to 2014, nearly matching the years when his father served as president from 2010 to 2014.
Lobo told U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield that no one forced him to plead guilty even though he was placing himself at the mercy of the court to decide his fate on a charge that carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life. His sentencing was set for Sept. 15.
Lobo was brought to the United States in May 2015 to face an indictment charging him with conspiring to smuggle over 5 kilograms of cocaine into the United States.
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