TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran military police arrested on Thursday Jose Miguel "Chepe" Handal, the alleged leader of a drug trafficking organisation that coordinated the shipment of tons of Colombian cocaine via Mexican cartels to the United States.
Handal, a prominent Honduran businessman, was taken into custody without a struggle in the northwestern city of San Pedro Sula near a hospital where his father was receiving treatment, President Juan Orlando Hernandez said in a television interview.
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