Brother of Honduran president gets life in US jail in drug case

During Tony Hernandez’s trial, US prosecutors said the Honduran president was a co-conspirator in his brother’s crimes.

The brother of Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been sentenced to life in prison in the United States after he was convicted at a trial that a prosecutor said exposed him as a central figure in one of the world’s largest and most violent drug conspiracies. Juan Antonio ‘Tony’ Hernandez, a former Honduran congressman, was sentenced on Tuesday in the Manhattan federal court. The 42-year-old was convicted in October 2019 of charges that carried a mandatory minimum sentence of 40 years in prison. US District Judge P Kevin Castel said Hernandez’s life sentence was “richly deserved” because of his “free choice to engage in a life of drug trafficking for 12 years”.