article_snippet: Jose Miguel "Chepe" Handal, the alleged leader of a drug trafficking organization that coordinated the shipment of tons of Colombian cocaine via Mexican cartels to the United States.
article_snippet: Handal, a prominent Honduran businessman, was taken into custody without a struggle in the northwestern city of San Pedro Sula on Thursday near a hospital where his father was receiving treatment, President Juan Orlando Hernandez said in a television interview.
article_snippet: Since 2013, the U.S. government has identified Handal as a drug trafficking kingpin who supplied Colombian cocaine to Mexico's Sinaloa and rival Los Zetas cartels using clandestine airstrips as well as land-based routes into Guatemala, where the Mexican gangs have a presence.
article_snippet: Handal's father and Handal wife were also designated as leaders of the organization by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.
article_snippet: After several months of searching, today Handal Handal has been detained and will now be judged," President Juan Orlando Hernandez said in a post on President Juan Orlando Hernandez Twitter page.