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An illegal immigrant who was twice deported to Mexico for drug felonies has been sentenced to life in prison for taking part in a cocaine trafficking ring.
Federal prosecutors in Atlanta said Monday that Olivar Martinez-Blanco, 31, of Lawrenceville was convicted in September of acting as a lookout for a 35-pound cocaine shipment. Inside a stash house, agents found almost 1,000 pounds of marijuana, 35 pounds of crystal methamphetamine, five pounds of cocaine and several firearms.
U.S. Attorney David E. Nahmias said Martinez-Blanco, who was sentenced last week, “illegally re-entered the United States to traffic in cocaine.”
www.ajc.com (http://www.ajc.com/gwinnett/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2008/12/08/lawrenceville_immigrant_cocaine.html - broken link)
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