U.S. Court system imprisons Guatemalan cartel leader for international narcotics crimes: Marta Julia Lorenzana-Cordon.
Cocaine stored and inventoried in Guatemala, trafficked to the USA, Feds say
Felonious Drug Criminal Must Forfeit $27 Million for Leading Cartel from 2008-2019
Nearly 30-year ‘family’ operation aided Sinaloa Cartel, two siblings also got lifelong prison terms
COCAINE ROUTE: Colombia to Central America to Mexico to the United States of America
By JOSH MITCHELL
Editor
River Mississippi News
UNITED STATES — A Guatemalan woman will spend over three decades in prison after being found guilty this week in federal court of international drug trafficking.
Marta Julia Lorenzana-Cordon, 47, from Zacapa, Guatemala, was also ordered to “forfeit $27 million for charges related to international drug trafficking” as part of her 33-year sentence, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
According to a DOJ news release issued this week, U.S. court documents state that between 2008 and 2019 Lorenzana-Cordon led “one of the largest and most influential drug cartels in Guatemala, which was comprised primarily of family members.”
It moved “tonnage quantities” of cocaine from Columbia to Guatemala where it was “inventoried and stored on properties owned by the organization throughout Guatemala,” the DOJ news release states.
Lorenzana-Cordon worked alongside the Sinaloa Cartel and other groups to “traffic cocaine into Mexico, through Central America, and eventually, into the United States,” the release says.
Lorenzana-Cordon was sent to the United States from Guatemala over three years ago to face the charges and pleaded guilty to “conspiring to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, knowing and intending that it would be unlawfully imported to the United States.”
This case involving the Lorenzana Cartel dates back almost 30 years to 1996 and was activie through 2019 as it “coordinated the transportation, storage, and distribution of multi-ton quantities of cocaine from Colombia to Central America and Mexico, for eventual distribution into the United States,” the release adds.
It also states, “Lorenzana-Cordon’s siblings, Eliu Elixander Lorenzana-Cordon, 53, and Waldemar Lorenzana-Cordon, 59, were convicted in March 2019 on international narcotics trafficking charges in the District of Columbia and sentenced to life in prison.
“Lorenzana-Cordon’s father, Waldemar Lorenzana-Lima Sr., who has since passed away, pleaded guilty in August 2014 to international narcotics trafficking charges in the District of Columbia and was sentenced to 23 years in prison.”
The convictions were secured through the support of “Operation Slipknot,” which is backed by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces.
