Oakland man gets 15 years for drug, gun, immigration crimes
By Josh Richman

Posted: 11/18/2009 04:02:48 PM PST
Updated: 11/18/2009 04:02:48 PM PST


An Oakland man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to drug trafficking, gun and immigration charges, federal prosecutors said.

Francisco Torres-Felix, 41, was indicted in February 2007 on charges of conspiracy, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, two counts of possession of a firearm by an alien, and illegal re-entry following deportation. He pleaded guilty in May to all counts and was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte in San Jose.

In pleading guilty, Torres-Felix admitted to conspiring to and possessing with intent to distribute 15 kilograms of cocaine and carrying and possessing a .25-caliber semi-automatic pistol during that crime; he also admitted to possessing a .38-caliber semi-automatic pistol at other times and that he had returned to the United States illegally after having been deported.

Prosecutors say Torres-Felix had expected to receive about $270,000 for the cocaine, but he and another man were arrested in February 2007 at the scene of the attempted sale, a Hayward parking lot. His co-defendant, Alonso Rodriguez Castellanos, pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy to possess with intent to deliver cocaine in January and was sentenced in August to four years in federal prison.


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