Thread: N.C.: Illegal immigrant sentenced to 10 years on cocaine cha

Illegal immigrant sentenced to 10 years on cocaine charges

By Shelby Sebens
Staff Writer


Published: Friday, October 24, 2008 at 7:17 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, October 24, 2008 at 9:59 p.m.

A U.S. District Judge on Friday sentenced an illegal immigrant who was living in Wilmington to 10 years in prison on drug charges.

Alejandro Garcia-Hernandez, 36, pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

A year earlier, the Pender County Sheriff’s Office discovered a large amount of cocaine was being brought into the county and a meeting for a drug transaction with Garcia-Hernandez at a store in Rocky Point had been set up.

When the meeting took place a search of the vehicle Garcia-Hernandez was a passenger in contained three kilograms of cocaine and a handgun. Officers later searched his home and found more cocaine which he got from a source in Raleigh.

“Armed drug traffickers pose a very serious risk to our communities. Here, an armed trafficker with more than six pounds of cocaine was apprehended and prosecuted due to the good work of the ATF, the Pender County Sheriffs and the Wilmington Police,â€

Does anyone have any good ideas about how we can get these IAs to pay the taxpayers back for their incarceration costs? That is, until the wall gets built?

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In my opinion, we should make them work instead of working out at the prison gym. Don't we have some roads that need to be fixed, a fence that needs to be built?

Community service to work off the expenses of their investigation and prosecution. Credit given at the rate of minimum wage, with no cash payment at the end and deportation.