Massachusetts
Truck driver sentenced for transporting cocaine to Massachusetts
BOSTON (WWLP) – A man from Dallas was sentenced to prison for his role in a nationwide large-scale cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
According to the Department of Justice, 39-year-old Javier Robledo Perez was a commercial truck driver based out of Dallas who transported approximately 30 kilograms of cocaine across state lines on behalf of a drug trafficking organization based in Mexico and Texas.
Law enforcement stopped a commercial semi-truck Perez was driving as he crossed state lines into Massachusetts in May 2020. Police seized 30 vacuum-sealed bricks, containing approximately 30 kilograms of cocaine.
Perez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and possession with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. On Monday he was sentenced in federal court in Worcester to 49 1/2 months in prison (time-served), followed by two years of supervised release.
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