Attorney General Garland Announces Charges Against Juan Orlando Hernandez

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland (R), accompanied by Anne Milgram (L), Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, announces the extradition and unsealing of an indictment charging former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez with participating in a cocaine-importation conspiracy and related firearms offenses, at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC on Thursday, April 21, 2022. The indictment alleges that Hernandez conspired with some of the most violent drug traffickers in the world to traffic hundreds of thousands of kilograms of cocaine for distribution in the United States. Photo by Win McNamee/UPI