Official: Traffickers in Honduras Alerted to Raid
Official: Traffickers in Honduras Alerted to Raid
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras October 11, 2013 (AP)
A police operation to dismantle a drug trafficking cartel wasn't as successful as it should have been because corrupt authorities alerted the traffickers weeks ahead of time, a Honduran official said Thursday.
Seized Property Administration Office director Humberto Palacios said officials seized 71 bank accounts from Los Cachiros drug gang during the September operation and that none of them had any funds and the houses and businesses seized were also empty.
"There weren't any automobiles, machinery, or documentation on the assets," Palacios said. "They left us nothing."
Palacios said investigators learned that a tenant who rented one of the seized properties began looking for another house a month before police acted because he knew of the authorities' plan.
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