Miami (AP) – A drug informant who has helped the US drug execution administration to create some of the largest cases, has been arrested and accused of squeezing the main cocaine traders encountered with extradition from Colombia and the Dominican Republic.
Jorge Hernández, 57, was charged with a criminal complaint, which was unveiled on Wednesday with one conspiracy for fraud. He remains detained after he was arrested and held his initial court hearing in Fort Loderdale in the Federal Court on Wednesday.
The court documents state that Hernández was following a scheme, starting from 2020, where he pretended to be a paramegal, which could receive lighter punishment for the king of drugs at the right price, according to a 17 -page FBI statement.
The FBI said Hernández demanded $ 1 million.
In exchange for payments that arose as pure, jewelry, immovable wealth and vehicle in Colombia, Hernández is guaranteed short imprisonment sentences that will be served in a “apartment similar to house arrest,” the court documents say.
However, Hernández never fulfilled his promises and had no authority to offer such a dismissal. When the merchants who thought they were influenced, they would have become upset, they would deny responsibility and change the accusations of human traders to lawyers, the FBI said.
Nestor Menendez, a lawyer representing Hernández in the initial show, refused to comment.
Over two decades, as a confidential informant, Hernández was one of the most productive federal law enforcement creators, providing tips and information that led to prosecution for major maritime drug smugglers, former Miami University Money Laundering Expert and close to Venezuelan President Nicolás Madur.
Better known in law enforcement, according to their Spanish nickname, Boliche-Bouling Ball-sensitive, the bald head Colombian was also a star witness in 2023. Bribery in court, when two former Dea supervisors were convicted of information about the drugs ongoing.
According to the Associated Press, he started working as an informant in 2000, shortly after being arrested in Venezuela, where he escaped from drug dealers seeking to kill him.
After bribing, he approached Dea, who confessed to killing three people in his days as a drug runner near his home along the Caribbean Caribbean. Then he began to help Dea create some of her largest cases.
The agents were so dependent on Hernández’s criminal fellow network throughout the Western hemisphere that they set it with a phone and table in the federal anti-Narkotics working group, AP.
The court’s records show that Dea terminated his cooperation agreement in 2008, after the authorities learned that he threatened to reveal the informants as a foot unless they paid him to silence.
But he kept close to some of his former Dea supervisors and eventually returned to Miami. 2016 He met with Dea Agent John Costanz, who overseen the agents investigating the Colombian businessman Alex Saab, a suspected bag of Venezuela Maduro. 2023 Hernández testified against Costanz and other former Dea Agent, convicted of Narco defense lawyers.
Hernández turned the dea tables at about the same time as he was accused with Miami University professor Bruce Bagley for helping to transfer $ 3 million by name Saab, who prosecutors said, secretly negotiated the agreement to issue Maduro.
Those charges remain under the seal. On Wednesday, the FBI complaint that Hernández performs the probation term for a federal sentence for a conspiracy to execute money laundering, which is scheduled for 2027. May
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Musian reported from New York.