Posted on 06/15/2010 3:13:01 PM PDT by SandRat
PHOENIX (KGUN9-TV) – Several Mexican men have been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison on drug charges. 29-year-old Antelmo Vega-Cristin of San Ignacio, Sinaloa, Mexico and 23-year-old Efrain Plata-Jimenez of Acaponeta, Nayaritt, Mexico were sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Rosenblatt. The pair pleaded guilty on March 16, 2010, to importing more than 400 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. from Mexico.
On November 12, 2009, Vega-Cristin, Plata-Jimenez and their co-defendants, Manuel Alberto Alvarado-Romero, Raymundo Nunez-Rodriguez, Tomas Payanez-Carrazco, Santana Ponce-Perez, and Jose Garcia-Angulo, were apprehended by Wellton Station Border Patrol agents as they made their way towards Interstate 8 through the desert near Tacna, Arizona. Agents noted that the group consisted of 11 people, and that they were all carrying backpacks.
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Border ping
Drug backpackers sentenced for importing marijuana into the U.S. from Mexico
I think some people are growing it right by their house, at the side of the road ... LOL ...
I've seen a neighbor's house where there's a bunch of this growing on public property by the side of the road ... hoo-boy!
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