Posted on 05/04/2025 12:57:59 AM PDT by nickcarraway
An MS-13 gangbanger will spend the next 17 years behind bars for orchestrating a transnational fentanyl trafficking ring while incarcerated at a Florida prison, according to federal prosecutors.
Mario Clifford Rivera, 32, whose alias is “Chuky,” was sentenced Wednesday for using the US Postal Service to smuggle more than three kilograms of the deadly drug across the border from Mexico into the Sunshine State, according to the the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. Rivera’s legal status was not immediately clear.
“Rivera’s 17-year federal prison sentence should serve as a warning to MS-13 and other terrorist gangs who seek to flood our communities with deadly poisons like fentanyl,” US Attorney Hayden O’Byrne said in a statement. “Whether you operate on the streets or behind prison walls, we will identify your leaders and members, dismantle your networks, and hold you accountable using the full force of American law.” Prosecutors said Rivera, while out on bond in 2023, launched his narcotics operation and sold two kilograms of the lethal substance to a Florida buyer as he awaited the start of a three-year prison stint for throwing a deadly missile into an occupied car and aggravated assault.
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Is he here legally?
I noticed the article did not say "alleged" MS-13 gang-member, so the evidence should be sufficient for the media.
Why minimum security? So the inmates can get jobs doing landscaping and other household chores for the neighbors outside the prison. Sort of a rehab program. What could go wrong?
Florida father
It’s only a business change of address. Prison didn’t stop him from doing it before.
EC
We bought Panama land to create the Canal Zone which was a US territory. John McCain was born there so he was eligible to run for President.
President Nayib Bukele would love this>>>
We need to buy a few square miles of El Salvador land to make into a US territory. Build a mega-prison there. Contract out to the El Salvador Government to administer it. A super cheap way to deport criminals. Including those from nations that refuse to accept them back. Like commie China.
This isn’t fair. Can’t some feral dem appointed federal judge simply overturn this conviction?
Someone tell Van Hollen he doesn’t have to travel to San Salvador for conjugal visits with those he loves...Florida is a lot closer.....
I have always wondered what the MS-13 “Maryland Fathers” occupation was. I think I found it.
That’ll teach ‘im.
I suppose it is nitpicking to point out that Mexico does not have a border with Florida.
DUH that is why the USPS was used to move the drugs to Florida
What a waste of taxpayers’ money.
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