Mexican man given maximum sentence for selling grenades

Posted: Aug 31, 2015 6:36 PM CDTUpdated: Aug 31, 2015 6:36 PM CDT
McALLEN, Texas (AP) - A Mexican man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for delivering grenades to undercover agents.
The U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of Texas said Monday that 45-year-old Mario Alberto Garcia-Balderas was ordered to serve the statutory maximum after a federal jury convicted him of being in the U.S. illegally and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Garcia-Balderas was separately sentenced to 96 months in federal prison for re-entering the U.S. after being deported, an offense to which he had already pleaded guilty.
During Garcia-Baldera's trial, Homeland Security agents testified that he had sold grenades to undercover agents three times.
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