Posted on 10/15/2007 5:19:11 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
A judge has sentenced one of seven brothers behind Mexico's Arellano Felix (ah-RAY'-ah-no FAY'-leeks) drug cartel to serve six years in a U.S. prison.
Fifty-seven-year-old Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix is the eldest of the clan. He was extradited to the U.S. after serving a decade in a Mexican prison on weapons violations.
Arellano Felix's sentencing Monday follows his guilty plea in June to charges that he sold about a half-pound of cocaine to a San Diego undercover police officer in 1980.
His younger brother, Francisco Javier Arellano Felix, pleaded guilty last month to laundering money and running a criminal enterprise. He was captured last year by the U.S. Coast Guard in international waters.
helluva deal considering...better than most of my old pot pals got in the late 80s
Half pound of cocaine? Doesn’t that net a U.S. citizen a mandatory minimum 20 years or so? Meanwhile stocks in private prisons are doing great - if you can stomach having them.
A lot more corruption now compared to then. Most of your old acquaintances were probably far better people, overall, than those now in positions of power. I bet these FAY-leeks guys will be free on technicalities before the next President takes the oath.
one pound of perico will nets you possibly just probabtion.
i believe the min-man of 5 years starts at 5 kilos
this just represents a deal he made, he was a leader in a group that imported scores of tons of coke and hundreds of tonnes of ganj
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