Arnulfo Fagot-Maximo

Arnulfo Fagot-Maximo was the leader of a drug trafficking organization based in La Mosquitia, Honduras, and one of the clearest documented intermediaries between Colombian cocaine suppliers and the Montes-Bobadilla organization. His federal conviction makes him an unusually strong connector in the archive’s emerging South America-to-Central America trafficking graph.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia stated that Fagot-Maximo led a trafficking organization operating along the Mosquitia coast in the Honduran department of Gracias a Dios. For more than a decade, the organization received cocaine shipments directly from Colombia using go-fast boats, small aircraft and submersible vessels. Individual deliveries ranged from several hundred kilograms to several thousand kilograms.

Federal trial evidence showed that much of the cocaine received by Fagot-Maximo was then transferred to the Montes-Bobadilla organization in Francia, Honduras. That specific relationship is crucial because it creates a direct person-to-organization and organization-to-organization bridge: Colombian suppliers → Fagot-Maximo network → Los Montes.

From Los Montes and other Honduran trafficking groups, cocaine continued north through Honduras and Guatemala before being delivered to Mexican cartels for importation into the United States. This route gives Fagot-Maximo a position between the South American source side of the network and the larger Central American transport system.

The Justice Department described his organization as a critical link between Colombian cocaine suppliers and major Honduran traffickers. That wording should be reflected carefully in the archive’s relationship types. His profile should not be presented as part of Los Montes; rather, his network supplied or transferred cocaine to Los Montes according to trial evidence.

Fagot-Maximo was extradited to the United States and convicted by a federal jury in December 2018 of a large cocaine conspiracy. The conviction is important because the central trafficking relationships were established through trial evidence rather than existing only as allegations in a pending indictment. His sentencing details should be added when a primary-source record is available in the package.

The La Mosquitia geography also deserves its own future location node. Multiple trafficking organizations used the region because of its Caribbean coastline, remote terrain and access to maritime and clandestine-air routes. However, the archive should avoid treating organizations operating there as partners unless specific evidence documents cooperation.

Within the graph, Fagot-Maximo should link to the Colombian Cocaine Source Network, his own La Mosquitia trafficking organization, Los Montes, the Central America Cocaine Transit Network and his federal case. The route should then continue north toward Guatemala, Mexican cartels and the United States through documented case relationships.

His profile is one of the strongest examples of why the regional approach works better than country-by-country coverage. Fagot-Maximo cannot be understood as merely a Honduran trafficker: his documented role exists precisely because he connected Colombian supply to Honduran distribution networks and ultimately to Mexico and the U.S. market.

Fagot-Maximo also helps the archive distinguish supply-chain roles. His organization was not described simply as another Honduran cartel competing for the same market; federal trial evidence characterized it as an intermediary that received cocaine from Colombian suppliers and then transferred much of it to Los Montes. That relationship type should remain explicit because it tells the reader how the network functioned rather than only who appeared in the same region.

His conviction also creates a stable historical anchor for La Mosquitia. Future DTOs, airstrips, maritime routes and seizures from the same coastal zone can link to the location without being automatically merged into the Fagot-Maximo network. This keeps the graph dense but accurate as the Honduras branch expands.

Documented network

RB ORG FAGOT_MAXIMO_DTO (organization) is recorded in the canonical graph as member of or associated with, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

RB CASE US_V_ARNULFO_FAGOT_MAXIMO (case) is recorded in the canonical graph as defendant in, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

RB ORG CENTRAL_AMERICA_COCAINE_TRANSIT_NETWORK (organization) is recorded in the canonical graph as linked through cocaine transit, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

RB ORG COLOMBIA_COCAINE_SOURCE_NETWORK (organization) is recorded in the canonical graph as linked through colombian supply, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

RB ORG LOS_MONTES (organization) is recorded in the canonical graph as supplied or transferred cocaine to, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

Status and record

The structured life-status field is unknown. This administrative field should change only when a reliable current source supports an update.

Source record

The current Master package attaches the following evidence sources to this profile: – Jury Convicts Honduran Drug Trafficker of Cocaine Conspiracy — U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia, Tier 1.

Each source supports only the claims tied to it. Structured source references remain attached so later audits can trace timeline and relationship records back to evidence.

Evidence and editorial boundaries

For living subjects especially, legal claims and current status require dated sourcing. Future expansion should therefore come from stronger records or newly processed canonical entities rather than unsourced crime lore.