United States Drug Enforcement Administration

MIAMI – Fredy Donaldo Marmol Vallejo (Marmol), 40, will make his initial appearance in federal court in Miami, Florida today after being extradited from Honduras, his country of origin. An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida charges Marmol with conspiring to traffic narcotics internationally, distributing narcotics internationally with the intent to import it into the United States, and laundering the proceeds of the narcotics trafficking.  

Specifically, the indictment returned on May 4, charges Marmol and co-defendant Michael Adolf Dixon Rivers, 53, also a Honduran national, with participating in an international drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed cocaine in Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Mexico, with the goal of getting the drug into the United States.  The indictment further charges Marmol with laundering the proceeds of this drug trafficking activity.

Marmol will make his initial court appearance today at 1:30 p.m. before U.S. Magistrate Judge Chris M. McAliley, who sits in Miami.

U.S. Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez for the Southern District of Florida, Acting Special Agent in Charge La Verne J. Hibbert of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Miami Field Office, and Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of FBI Miami made the announcement. 

On Aug. 18, 2021 Honduran authorities arrested Marmol based upon a provisional arrest request by the United States.  The Honduran Supreme Court ordered him extradited on Sept. 24, 2021 based upon an extradition request by the United States.  U.S. Attorney Gonzalez extends his gratitude to the government of Honduras for its assistance, as well as the Agencia Técnica de Investigación Criminal.  The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs provided substantial assistance in securing Marmol’s arrest and extradition.  FBI’s International Operations Division transported Marmol from Honduras to the United States.

DEA Miami and FBI Miami investigated this case, with assistance from Customs and Border Protection, Miami.  It is being prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.

This effort is part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) operation. OCDETF identifies, disrupts, and dismantles the highest-level criminal organizations that threaten the United States using a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency approach. Additional information about the OCDETF Program can be found at https://www.justice.gov/OCDETF.

An indictment is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

More information about this case can be found at www.flsd.uscourts.gov or http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov .