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08-19-2006, 07:40 PM #1
4 sentenced in Taney County on cocaine charges
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August 17, 2006
4 sentenced in Taney County on cocaine charges
Amos Bridges
© 2006, Springfield News-Leader
Four Mexican nationals were sentenced in federal court Thursday for distributing cocaine in Taney County, according to a press release issued by the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.
The men — all citizens of Mexico living in Branson —were prosecuted as part of Operation Cocaine Highway, a multi-jurisdictional investigation into the importation and distribution of powder cocaine.
Sentenced were:
* Marco Antonio Hernandez-Islas, also known as The Chicken, 34, sentenced to two years and three months in federal prison without parole.
* Rogelio Garduno-Bustos, 35, sentenced to three years and five months in federal prison without parole.
* Tayde Garduno-Bustos, also known as Coco, 37, sentenced to two years in federal prison without parole.
* Manuela Garcia-Lujan, 40, sentenced to two years and nine months in federal prison without parole.
All four pleaded guilty in April of this year to participating in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine in Taney County from April 2002 to April 2003, the release said.
Two other co-defendants in the case were sentenced earlier.
* Ruben D. Garduno-Bustos, 30, a Mexican citizen living in Branson, was sentenced March 8, to four years and three months in federal prison without parole. His sentence is to be served consecutively to a 2003 federal sentence for unlawful re-entry as an aggravated felon.
* Osvaldo Lerma, Jr., 33, of Branson, was sentenced March 10 to three years and five months in federal prison without parole.
Rogelio Garduno-Bustos and Garcia-Lujan are resident aliens who had applied for citizenship to the United States, the press release said.
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