US Bounties Hit Honduran 'Transportista' Family
6 MAY 2022 BY SCOTT MISTLER-FERGUSON
The US has offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of leaders of the Montes Bobadilla drug clan – a Honduran transport group that has showcased unusual staying power.
The State Department alleges that Herlinda Bobadilla, 61, and her sons Tito and Juan Carlos Montes Bobadilla are the current leaders of the group, which moves drugs and launders illicit proceeds throughout Central America, Mexico and the United States. Since the arrest of Herlinda Bobadilla's third son, Noe Montes Bobadilla, in 2017, their roles in the organization "have grown significantly," according to a May 2 State Department news release.
Prosecutors from Virginia's Eastern District indicted Herlinda Montes Bobadilla and her three sons in 2015 on drug charges, alleging that they transported "multi-ton" shipments of South American cocaine for Central American and Mexican drug trafficking organizations. The group charged a fee of ten percent for each load, with payment typically made in cocaine, prosecutors said.
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The leadership of the family drug clan has changed several times since its founding in the 1980s by Pedro García Montes, who was shot dead in 2004 in the Colombian city of Cartagena. His cousin, Alex Adán Montes Bobadilla, took over and brought into the fold his cousin Herlinda and her sons, according to a 2016 report in Honduran news outlet El Heraldo.
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Tito Montes Bobadilla, Herlinda Bobadilla, and Juan Carlos Montes Bobadilla (Submitted Images)
