Check this story for Kansas City area tragic meth distribution cooperation involving Mexicans and what sounds like rural Missouri white dudes . . . Sometimes diversity is a horrible thing.
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KC MAN SENTENCED TO 17 YEARS FOR $809,000 METH CONSPIRACY
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in an $809,000 conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
Luis Hernandez, 51, of Kansas City, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner on Thursday, March 28, 2013 to 17 years in federal prison without parole.
On July 2, 2012, Hernandez pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine between Jan. 1, 2008 and Aug. 11, 2011. Hernandez admitted that he was supplied with more than seven kilograms of methamphetamine by co-defendant Jesus Roberto Zamudio Beltran, 36, a Mexican national with no known address. Hernandez admitted that he distributed the methamphetamine to co-defendants Jerry Dean Matlock, 57, of Cherryvale, Kan., Aaron Benson, 50, address unknown, and David M. Russell, 59, address unknown, on numerous occasions. Beltran, Matlock, Benson and Russell have also pleaded guilty and await sentencing.
All of the co-defendants must forfeit to the government $809,200, which represents the proceeds of the drug-trafficking conspiracy, for which they are jointly and severally liable. Hernandez must also forfeit to the government the property at 5228 E. Truman Rd., Kansas City, where his car detailing business was located, and his Ford F-150 pickup. Co-defendants must also forfeit to the government six residential properties, a Cadillac Escalade and a 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air.
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Catherine Connelly. It was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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The problem with this is that the gov't will stand idly by and let drug dealers spread their poison around the community for years, waiting for them to build up assets that can be seized. Several years ago a local meth dealer was busted, his picture on the front page of the newspaper with him on the ground and thousands of dollars in cash fanned out around him. "We've been watching him for six years," an agent was quoted as saying. During the time he was being "watched," the neighborhood was deteriorating, and no telling how many families were destroyed by the meth he was peddling as the Drug Agencies waited for the right moment to swoop in and grab up all the cash.
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