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Federal prosecutors have charged five men with shipping about 1,000 pounds of baled marijuana from Texas to Indiana after one of the men hired an undercover customs agent to deliver the shipment, court documents show.
Juaquin Tapia, 54, of Brownsville, Texas, unknowingly hired an undercover Texas Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent to drive the drugs to Indiana and paid him $14,000 in cash when the shipment arrived in Fort Wayne on Oct. 16, according to court documents.
Andres Cuellar, 44, of La Rosita Coahullia, Mexico, told the undercover agent to contact Jose Hernandez, 40, of Goshen once he arrived, court records state.
Tapia, Cuellar, Hernandez, Jose Ramirez of Fort Wayne, and Enedeo Rodriguez Jr., 25, of Warsaw, were all charged last week with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana.
Hernandez has also been charged with possession with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, authorities announced this week.
According to court records, once the shipment arrived in Fort Wayne, the agent contacted Hernandez, who directed him and the drugs to a house owned by Ramirez. Hernandez called Ramirez and told him "the girls are in town," which is slang for drugs, court records state.
When officers raided the house, they found 83 bundles, or about 1,000 pounds, of marijuana, plus packing materials, scales, $14,500 in cash, a loaded gun and 20 to 30 more pounds of marijuana, according to records.
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Source: Houston Chronicle (TX)
Pubdate: Oct. 25, 2006
Author: Associated Press
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Juaquin Tapia, 54, of Brownsville, Texas, unknowingly hired an undercover Texas Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent to drive the drugs to Indiana and paid him $14,000 in cash when the shipment arrived in Fort Wayne on Oct. 16, according to court documents.
Andres Cuellar, 44, of La Rosita Coahullia, Mexico, told the undercover agent to contact Jose Hernandez, 40, of Goshen once he arrived, court records state.
Tapia, Cuellar, Hernandez, Jose Ramirez of Fort Wayne, and Enedeo Rodriguez Jr., 25, of Warsaw, were all charged last week with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana.
Hernandez has also been charged with possession with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, authorities announced this week.
According to court records, once the shipment arrived in Fort Wayne, the agent contacted Hernandez, who directed him and the drugs to a house owned by Ramirez. Hernandez called Ramirez and told him "the girls are in town," which is slang for drugs, court records state.
When officers raided the house, they found 83 bundles, or about 1,000 pounds, of marijuana, plus packing materials, scales, $14,500 in cash, a loaded gun and 20 to 30 more pounds of marijuana, according to records.
Newshawk: 420AM&PM - 420 Magazine
Source: Houston Chronicle (TX)
Pubdate: Oct. 25, 2006
Author: Associated Press
Copyright: © 1985 - 2002 Hearst Newspapers Partnership, L.P. All rights reserved.
Website: Houston news, entertainment, search and shopping | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
