US charges former Honduran police chief with drug trafficking

Honduras' former police chief was indicted in New York Thursday on drug trafficking charges as part of an investigation that…

Honduras’ former police chief was indicted in New York Thursday on drug trafficking charges as part of an investigation that previously implicated President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

Juan Bonilla Valladares, 60, is alleged to have used his position to protect cocaine shipments in transit to the United States in return for bribes, and of having organized a murder in June 2011, according to the indictment.