On Tuesday night, Guatemalan authorities arrested an alleged drug trafficker wanted in the United States for alleged links to the Sinaloa cartel led by "El Chapo" Guzmán.
According to the first reports presented by news agency Reuters, Waldemar Lorenzana, 48, was arrested in a house located in Teculután, in the department of Zacapa, 140 km away from the Guatemalan capital, when he tried to escape from police units, informed a source of the Public Ministry of that country.
Lorenzana was a member of the well-known Guatemalan drug trafficking family, reported the news agency. At the moment of his capture, Mr. Lorenzana was wanted by American authorities, who offered a reward of $200,000 to whoever provided information leading to his arrest.
The detainee is accused of conspiring to illegally import into the United States at least 5 kg of cocaine from the republics of Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico, reads a press release from the Guatemalan Public Ministry quoted by Reuters.
The government of the United States kept the Waldemar family (Eliú, Haroldo, and their father, Lorenzana Lima Waldemar) in the list of Central American drug lords. In 2011, local authorities arrested Eliú and his father, and courts ordered their extradition to the United States last year.
The only member of the family still at large is Haroldo, for whom the Treasury has offered $200,000 for any information that leads to his capture.
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