Édgar Yovani Calderón Calderón, son of Baldemar Calderón Carrillo, known as Uncle buckethe was sentenced in the United States to seven years and four months in prison for having shown at least 550 kilos of cocaine to that North American country.
According to the sentence documents against Calderón Calderón, a drug cargo was found on an American ship.
“Even, aboard a ship subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, while it was on the high seas, conspired consciously and intentionally with other known and unknown people with the intention of distributing five kilograms or more of cocaine.”
In January 2023, Calderón Calderón was arrested in Paris, France, and in March 2024 he was extradited to the United States, where he declared himself guilty 11 months after conspiracy positions for the international distribution of cocaine.
The US Department of Justice published on June 16 that Calderón Calderón admitted that, from at least 2017 to May 31, 2019, he conspired with others to distribute cocaine in Guatemala and other places, knowing and having reasonable cause to believe that cocaine would be illegally imported to the United States.
He added that Calderón Calderón admitted to having participated in the distribution of large amounts of cocaine in Guatemala for a drug trafficker organization based in the table, Huehuetenango. From Huehuetenango, cocaine was transported to accomplices that operated near the border between Guatemala and Mexico, to Mexico, and finally smuggled to the United States.
The Calderón family, dedicated to drug transfer
The investigations show that Edgar Yovani Calderón Calderón is part of A family Dedicated to drug transfer that operated in Huehuetenango. One of the leaders of the structure is his father, Baldemar Calderón Carrillo, aka Uncle Balde, who died during a confrontation with Mexican police last June 8 at the table, democracy, Huehuetenango, border between Mexico and Guatemala.
Anti -narcotics agents of Guatemala and the US. UU. They identified 13 alleged criminals belong to the Calderón family, which operates in democracy, Huehuetenango, and part of the mouth.
He Chiapas-Guatemala posterof which the Calderón family is part, it emerged when small clans operating in Huehuetenango joined a group of Mexican drug traffickers to deal with the poster of the fleeing, a former former former said.
He added that the fleets, headed by ALER SAMAYOA RECINOS, ALIAS EL CHICHARRAand Eugenio Darío Molina López, aka the bootsthey had begun to collect a “tax” to the drug trafficking clans in that department.
The anti -narcotics agents of Guatemala and the United States detected the operation of that structure, and on May 31, 2019 the US authorities presented an accusation before the court of the San Diego district, California, against Baldemar Calderón Carrillo, aka Aias Uncle Balde; Three of their children and nine other people, including close relatives.
Uncle Balde’s death
Baldemar Calderón Carrillo, aka Uncle Balde, was killed with three other people on June 8 on the border between Mexico and Guatemala.
He armed confrontation It was recorded on the border of the table, Huehuetenango, between the immediate reaction force Pakal (Frip) and alleged members of the Chiapas-Guatemala poster.
The State Attorney General (FGE) of Chiapas reported that Four members were killed of an armed civil group. In addition, he reported the confiscation of four long weapons – one of them with launchers – two short weapons, two ballistic vests, 17 chargers, a 40 -caliber grenade 40 and four vehicles, of which three are armored.
Free press verified the plates numbers and the owners of the armored ones; One of them is a state contractor.
That vehicle is registered in the name of DS Guatemala Sociedad Anónima, which has been a contractor of the Municipality of Chiquimula from December 2024 to April 2025. The legal representative of that company is Melvin Estuardo Vásquez Rossel, according to public records.
The commune has hired labor services, ranging from Q10 thousand 200 and Q24 thousand 800, for different works and minor works, such as the repair of the stands on the skating track installed at the Chiquimula Fair. Also for the cast of 150 square meters of concrete on the street of the San Pedrito neighborhood, zone 4 of that municipality.