Drug Smuggler Sentenced to More Than 13 Years

Last Update: 1:09 pm

CAMERON COUNTY - A drug smuggler involved with former Cameron County Sheriff Conrado Cantu's case finally got sentenced.

A grand jury indicted Juan Carlos Sanchez Vasquez back in 2005. Prosecutors say he ran a drug organization along the border. They claimed he bribed former Sheriff Cantu for protection money in 2002.

He pleaded guilty in May 2005, but his sentencing kept getting delayed. He was sentenced Wednesday to 13-and-a-half years in federal prison.

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