Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 18

Three Get Severe Sentences For Trafficking

Three convicted drug traffickers were sentenced August 22 to hefty prison terms for trafficking and attempting to distribute more than nine tons of marijuana.

Those sentenced were Salvador Garcia, 45, and his brother, Jorge Rolando Garcia, Sr., 53, both of Rio Grande City, Texas; and Toribio Arriaga Guerrero, a Mexican national residing in Mission, Texas.

Salvador Garcia received a total of 30 years in federal prison, without parole, for conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute a total 9,304 lbs. of marijuana. Garcia was also sentenced to serve five years for each of 22 money-laundering convictions. He was also ordered to pay over $7.5 million in fines.

Jorge Rolando Garcia, Sr. and Toribio Arriaga Guerrero will each be serving a total of 20 years in federal prison without parole for conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute marijuana.

ICE Special Agent-in-Charge Alonzo Pena, who heads the ICE San Antonio office, said Salvador Garcia was convicted based upon evidence that proved Garcia used his property as a passageway for drugs to be brought into the United States from Mexico.

Once the drugs were ferried across the Rio Grande River, they would be picked up at the landing site on the Salvador Garcia property and transported by truck to various stash houses in both Rio Grande City and McAllen, Texas. U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized a load of marijuana at Garcia's property in November 2003, as well as a fully loaded AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle; a 1999 fully armored Grand Jeep Cherokee that also had switches for electric door shock, tear gas and smoke screen; and a fully armored 1995 Grand Marquis. These vehicles were registered to members of Salvador Garcia's immediate family.

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