The Office of the spokeswoman for the United States Department of State, Tammy Bruce, reported on March 25 that a reward of up to US $ 5 million is offered for information that leads to the arrest and/or condemnation of the Guatemalan drug trafficker Haroldo Waldemar Lorenzana Terraza.
Lorenzana Terraza is grandson of Waldemar Lorenzana Lima, aka the patriarchwho died in 2021 and who He served a 23 -year prison sentence imposed by the US justice, where he was indicated as a drug trafficking organization.
The information reveals that the reward of up to US $ 5 million (about Q38 million 494 thousand 288) by Lorenzana Terraza was announced by the Office of Anti -Narcotics Affairs and application of the State Department Law, under the program of rewards against drug trafficking (NRP, in English).
The reward will be granted “for information conducive to the arrest and/or condemnation, in any country, of the Guatemalan drug trafficker Haroldo Waldemar Lorenzana Terraza, also known as Haroldito”, reads in the statement.
It is added that the money is offered in coordination with the Government of Guatemala, in a unified effort to take Lorenzana Terraza before justice. Therefore, the existing reward of Q50 thousand was increased.
The Lorenzana clan
The state department information indicates that Haroldito “He is a member of the drug trafficker Lorenzana, who operates from La Reforma, Guatemala, with traffic links established with several Mexican drug traffickers, including the Sinaloa cartel (recently designated by the United States as a foreign terrorist organization and as specially designated global terrorist)”.
He adds that since 1996, the Lorenzana Drug Trafficking Organization has coordinated the transport, storage and distribution of tons of cocaine from Colombia to Central America and Mexico, for later distribution in the United States.
The DEA’s investigation has led to Lorenzana Terraza in front of two accusations in the Columbia district for international narcotics violations, read in the statement. He adds that, in the second accusation, Haroldito was indicated as an operator of a continuous criminal company (CCE) and four other defendants were also charged.
“Today’s reward offer is authorized by the Secretary under the NRP, which supports the efforts of application of the law to interrupt the transnational crime in the world and take fugitives to justice as a key pillar of the priorities of ‘America First’ of President Trump. If you have information, please contact the DEA by email: Harolditipsguat@dea.gov. If you are outside the United States, you can also visit the nearest American embassy or consulate. If you are in the United States, you can also contact the DEA’s local office. ”