Matriarch of Family-Operated Cocaine Business Pleads Guilty
Today, a Honduran woman pleaded guilty to participating in a large-scale conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States. In court documents, Erlinda Ramos-Bobadilla, aka Herlinda Bobadilla or Chinda, 62, is accused of leading the Montes-Bobadilla drug cartel, or Los Montes- one of the biggest in Honduras. Los Montes operated from Francia, a town in the Department of Colón on the northeastern coast of Honduras. The organization received cocaine from sources in South America through …