CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – A 50-year-old man from Orange has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for attempting to smuggle more than 23 kilograms of cocaine through a South Texas checkpoint, prosecutors announced.
Pablo Garcia Ortiz pleaded guilty on April 2 to possession with intent to distribute cocaine. U.S. District Judge David S. Morales sentenced him to 36 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Ortiz was allowed to remain on bond and will voluntarily surrender to the Bureau of Prisons.
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