A drug lord suspected of trafficking and with a $10 million bounty on his head has been captured in San Diego, according to officials.
“Cartel leaders can’t script their own fate, but we can,” U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon stated in a press release. He emphasized that this arrest marks the end for a man deemed one of the world’s most infamous cocaine traffickers, now apprehended in Southern California.
Eugenio Dario Molina López, 61, known as “Don Addario,” faces serious federal charges tied to cocaine distribution. He was indicted in 2019 for allegedly leading Los Huistas, a group operating in areas along the Guatemala-Mexico border, as reported by NBC4.
Prosecutors explained that Los Huistas runs a large-scale cocaine trafficking operation primarily from the Huehuetenango region in northwestern Guatemala, near Mexico.
Molina López has reportedly pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to illegally import cocaine and conspiracy to distribute cocaine aboard a vessel.
