Steven Ovaldino Lorenzana Alvarenga accepted on Monday, May 5 to be extradited to the United States, where justice requires it for crimes related to drug trafficking and arms trafficking, judicial sources reported.
Lorenzana was arrested in La Palma village, Río Hondo, Zacapa, on April 14, during an operation of anti -narcotics agents of the National Civil Police (PNC), which complied with a capture order.
Lorenzana Alvarenga, aka Chipi, 30, is the son of Ovaldino Lorenzana Cordón, according to police reports.
Lorenzana Alvarenga is considered responsible for coordinating and ensuring cocaine shipments through aircraft, participating in the collection and distribution of thousands of kilograms of that drug, according to the Public Ministry.
Lorenzana Cordón is the last of the children of Waldemar Lorenzana Lima, aka El Patriarca, who remains free and, according to anti -narcotics agents, has no arrest warrant.
In 2012, Ovaldino Lorenzana was sanctioned by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC, in English) of the US Department of Treasury. 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 the drug trafficking organizations that drug trafficking organizations They operate in the country.
The Lorenzana family, headed by Waldemar Lorenzana Lima, aka El Patriarca, has the history of having led the transfer of drugs to Mexico and maintaining links with the Sinaloa poster, which was led for decades by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who complies with drug trafficking in the United States.
The United States also related Patriarch’s children to the drug business. Waldemar, Haroldo, Elio and Marta Julia Lorenzana Cordón have been extradited under drug trafficking positions.