Editing Juan Antonio Hernández Alvarado (section)

===Background===
On October 13, 2016, the Captain of the Armed Forces Santos Orellana Rodríguez, identified by the United States as having alleged ties to drug trafficking, denounced in a national media outlet that They offered him a million dollars for not reporting the discovery of a helicopter that supposedly belonged to Tony Hernández and that had drugs. He also said that agents of the DEA "forced" him to testify against Tony Hernández and Wilter Blanco as those responsible for a plan to assassinate the US ambassador James Nealon. Following this, Hernández denied the accusations at a press conference and traveled to the United States in October to give testimony to the Miami Department of Justice. Also in January 2017, he gave statements to the Public Ministry of Honduras.

On March 17, 2017, Tony was accused by the former head of the [[Los cachiros|Los Cachiros]] cartel Devis Rivera Maradiaga, in statements to a New York court, of receiving a bribe in exchange for efforts to settle a debt that the government had with a money laundering company of that cartel. This alleged cooperation between Devis Rivera and Tony Hernández would have occurred between 2013 and 2015. Tony again denied the accusations.