Honduran President's Brother Gets Life in US Jail for Drug Trafficking

NEW YORK - Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez's brother was sentenced to life in prison by a New York judge Tuesday for large-scale drug trafficking after a trial that implicated the leader of the Central American country. 

Tony Hernandez, 42, was found guilty in October 2019 on four counts, including conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, possessing machine guns and making false statements.  Judge P. Kevin Castel said a life sentence for the former Honduran congressman who trafficked more than 185 tons of cocaine into the United States, some branded with his initials "TH," was "richly deserved."  Prosecutors had demanded life, stressing that Hernandez had "shown no remorse" and was "a central figure in one of the largest and most violent cocaine trafficking conspiracies in the world."