San Jose drug dealer gets big sentence, deportation

By Mike Rosenberg

Updated: 04/20/2012 07:12:08 PM PDT

A former Milpitas man has been sentenced to 16 years, 8 months in federal prison for supplying methamphetamine during a staged drug deal in South San Jose, prosecutors said Friday.

Mexican national Luis Angel Dimas, 30, sold four pounds of meth to an undercover DEA agent on Piercy Road, east of Highway 101, in August 2009, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

U.S. District Court Judge D. Lowell Jensen sentenced Dimas Thursday in a San Jose courtroom after a federal jury in November convicted on two counts of distributing the drug, and conspiracy to sell it. After serving his sentence, Dimas will be deported.

Two co-defendants, Jose Morales-Palacios and Alberto Vasquez-Rodriguez, pleaded guilty earlier and received nine years in prison. The Mexican nationals are also expected to be deported after completing their sentences.
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