The Region - News from Nov. 27, 1985

The former Honduran consul general in Los Angeles and a countryman were sentenced to federal prison for trying to smuggle about $10 million worth of cocaine into the United States. U.S. Senior District Judge A. Andrew Hauk ordered former diplomat Oscar Judas Oqueli-Hernandez, 39, to serve 5 1/2 years in prison and fined him $10,000. Gustavo Alvarado, 34, now living in Glendale, received three years in prison and was fined $5,000. Hauk belittled the two men’s contention that they did not know how the cocaine found by Customs inspectors got into the former diplomat’s luggage last July 22 at Los Angeles International Airport.