A federal prison database showed that Hernandez was released from a detention centre in West Virginia after spending more than three years in US jail. Last year, Hernandez was sentenced to 45 years for involvement in a scheme to export cocaine in the US, which prosecutors described as one of the largest and most violent drug trafficking conspiracies in the world.
President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison. The president explained his decision on social media by posting that according to many people that I greatly respect, Hernandez was treated very harshly and unfairly.