Chemical broker sentenced to nearly 19 years for supplying drug cartel with massive amounts of fentanyl, meth precursors
HSI Executive Associate Director Katrina W. Berger, acting Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and DEA Administrator Anne Milgram made the announcement.
A chemical broker responsible for illegally supplying one of Mexico’s largest and most dangerous drug cartels with enough precursor chemicals to produce more than 2 billion doses of fentanyl and 700 million doses of methamphetamine was sentenced Feb. 23 to almost 19 years in federal prison following a multiagency investigation spearheaded by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Houston and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Los Angeles, with assistance from U.S. Marshals Service’s Investigative Operations Division and the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Joint Interagency Task Force West.
There are probably statutory guidelines and maybe a plea deal invloved (article was unhelpful), but 18 years and 8 months seems pretty light for the destruction that was enabled. Lives lost, families torn apart, lingering social and economic problems.
Amen, I totally agree with you. That sentence was a total joke.
Plop, plop, fizz fizz, let him swallow some of what he pushed.. 😒
Only 19 years ?
It's about time the three-letter agencies started prosecuting criminals instead of parents/law abiding American citizens.
Amen.
Weak sentence considering the number of deaths caused by what he did. It should have been a life sentence or the death penalty.
Amen. Should have been life and a day this way there is no chance for parole.
13 years is not long enough.
Amen, should have been life and a day.