US-Sanctioned Drug Trafficker Sentenced to Prison

A U.S.-sanctioned leader of a Guatemalan drug trafficking group was sentenced to 23 years in prison, the Justice Department said in a Feb. 24 press release. In 2010, Waldemar Lorenzana-Lima was listed as a specially designated narcotics trafficker under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act due to “significant roles” in international trafficking. Lorenzana-Lima and his family allegedly used a family business and agricultural holdings in Guatemala as a front to move the drugs through Central America.