HSTF INVESTIGATION LEADS TO LENGTHY PRISON SENTENCE FOR ILLEGAL ALIEN FROM MEXICO WHO TRAFFICKED METHAMPHETAMINE SUPPLIED BY THE SINALOA CARTEL

WASHINGTON, July 7 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - An investigation by the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) has resulted in the conviction and sentencing of an illegal alien from Mexico who distributed hundreds of kilograms of methamphetamine for a drug trafficking organization supplied by the Sinaloa Cartel, announced Russ Ferguson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Anselmo Nava-Sanchez, 32, was sentenced to 188 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. After serving his prison sentence, Nava-Sanchez will be removed from the United States.

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