MEXICAN NATIONAL SENTENCED TO 14 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ROLE IN LARGE SCALE INTERNATIONAL COCAINE TRAFFICKING OFFENSE

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division issued the following news release:

A Mexican national was sentenced today to 14 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to import approximately 1,900 kilograms of cocaine into the United States.

According to court documents, Jesus Rauda-Avila, 46, was a member of a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization (DTO) led by Marisela Flores-Torruco that was responsible for importing multi-hundred-kilogram quantities of cocaine into the United States.

"Jesus Rauda-Avila conspired with a drug trafficking organization to import almost 2,000 kilograms of cocaine into the United States," said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department's Criminal ...