Steven Ovaldino Lorenzana Alvarenga, aka Chipiwas captured during an anti -narcotic operation in La Palma village, Río Hondo, Zacapa. According to the Ministry of the Interior, the 30 -year -old is required by the United States to face crimes related to drug trafficking.
Lorenzana Alvarenga is the son of Ovaldino Lorenzana Cordón, who accompanied him when he was arrested, according to police reports. Lorenzana Alvarenga is considered responsible for coordinating and ensuring cocaine cargoes through aircraft, participating and coordinating the collection and distribution of thousands of kilograms of that drug, according to the Public Ministry.
In a video shared by the National Civil Police (PNC), Lorenzana Cordón is observed in an attempt to dialogue with the agents in charge of the diligence.
Lorenzana Cordón is the last of the children of Waldemar Lorenzana Limaaka El Patriarca, who is released and according to anti -narcotics agents has no arrest warrant. In 2012 Ovaldino Lorenzana was sanctioned by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury Department. Then, the director of the OFAC, Adam Szubin, declared that the designation of Ovaldino and his sister Marta, members of “one of the most significant criminal families of Guatemala” constituted an effort to dismantle drug trafficking organizations that operate in the country.
Death of one of the children of Ovaldino Lorenzana Cordón
On Saturday, June 25, 2022, The newspaper and other Zacapa media reported the death of Waldo Lorenzana Alvarenga, 19. The young man apparently committed suicide in his home, in La Reforma, Huité, in that department.
“The Municipality of La Unión, Zacapa, sent signs of solidarity to the Lorenzana family with a scheme published on its Facebook page,” said the morning on that occasion.
Steven Lorenzana Alvarenga is the sixth member of the family native to Zacapa who is arrested for crimes related to drug trafficking.
In addition, there is an extradition order against Haroldo Lorenzana TerrazaPrimo de Steven Lorenzana, for the same positions. The United States offers a reward of until Q38.5 million, announced on March 25.
Lorenzana family business
The Lorenzana family, headed by Waldemar Lorenzana Lima, aka El Patriarca, has the history of having led drug transfer to Mexico and having links with the Sinaloa poster, which was led for decades by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmánwho complies with drug trafficking in the United States.
The United States also related The children of El Patriarca With the drug business. Waldemar, Haroldo, Elio and Marta Julia Lorenzana Cordón have been extradited under drug trafficking positions.
In 2009, the authorities intended to execute four arrest warrants in La Reforma, Zacapa, after paving five properties of Lorenzana. But they all failed. During the operation, which resulted in a shooting, a bullet touched an Ovaldino arm. Neither he nor his sister Marta Julia had no arrest warrant on June 21.
For the 2009 operation, among the authorities that arrived in Zacapa in two Chinook helicopters and five Black Hawk, there were Guatemalan prosecutors, police and military, US military advisors and DEA agents.
There were large amounts of firearms and cash in the place, but they were not seized because the search warrants were only for the location and capture of certain individuals. This was indicated by a document from the United States Embassy in Guatemala, signed by the then ambassador Stephen McFarland, which indicated that, according to the DEA, the judge who signed the orders refused to authorize raids with another objective that were not the individuals in the list, although the diplomatic notes also requested the seizure and delivery of any evidence found.
Why did Steven Lorenzana Alvarenga capture?
The Public Ministry reported that Steven Lorenzana is required by the US District Court for the Columbia district for drug -related crimes.
“It is also imputed to use a firearm during and in relation to a crime of drug trafficking, as well as the possession of a firearm to promote this crime,” said the MP.
He added that an investigation identified the Lorenzana organization as responsible for traffic large -scale drugs based on Guatemala. The structure was responsible for transporting and distributing multiple tons of cocaine from Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and other places to the US.
“The organization also transported and distributed large amounts of heroin with the knowledge that it would be illegally imported to the United States,” said the MP.
In addition, they used subjects strongly armed with machine guns and grenades.
The Minister of the Interior, Francisco Jiménez, informed that they have arrested 13 people for extradition purposes and that the operation against Lorenzana Alvarenga is a joint work with US agencies in the fight against transnational organized crime.