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Ex-Guatemalan Mayor Has Initial U.S. Court Hearing on Drug Charge
GUATEMALA, AUG 6 – Romeo Ramos Cruz allegedly used his mayoral office to facilitate cocaine shipments, facing life imprisonment for conspiring to import over five kilograms of cocaine, prosecutors say.
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Guatemalan mayor extradited to U.S. on cocaine trafficking charge
A former mayor in Guatemala has been extradited to the United States to face charges of conspiring to traffic cocaine destined for U.S. markets, the Justice Department announced. Romeo Ramos Cruz, 57, appeared in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Monday following his extradition from Guatemala. Cruz is charged with one count of conspiracy to import more than five kilograms of cocaine into the United States, a crime punishable by up to life i…
Ex-Guatemalan mayor has initial U.S. court hearing on drug charge
An ex-Guatemalan mayor could spend the rest of his life in jail if convicted for allegedly working to import more than five kilos of cocaine into the United States from his Latin American nation.
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Santa Maria TimesAssociated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday that it has extradited former Guatemalan Mayor Romeo Ramos Cruz to face trial on drug trafficking charges, joining a dozen Guatemalans extradited this year for the same offense. Ramos Cruz, 57, the former mayor of the municipality of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa in the southern department of Escuintla, was arrested in May and extradited Monday.
New York, Aug. 6 (EFE).- Romeo Ramos Cruz, former mayor of the Guatemalan municipality of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, has been extradited to the United States, accused of plotting to import cocaine to this country from Guatemala, the Department of Justice (DOJ) reported on Wednesday. In a statement, the DOJ indicates that Ramos Cruz was extradited on August 4 to face a conspiracy charge to transfer more than five kilograms of cocaine to this coun…
Romeo Ramos Cruz, former mayor of the Guatemalan municipality of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, has been extradited to the United States, accused of conspiring to import cocaine to this country from Guatemala, the Department of Justice (DOJ) reported on Wednesday. Guatemala’s Exalcalde entry is extradited to the United States for drug trafficking was first published in Proceso Digital.
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