Arizona
Arizona man sentenced to 6 years in prison for trafficking meth
PHOENIX — An Arizona man was sentenced on Monday to simply below six years in jail for his position in trafficking liquid methamphetamine, authorities mentioned.
Rey Moreno-Vasquez, 52, of Douglas, will serve 70 months in jail after beforehand pleading responsible to conspiring to distribute 234 kilograms of liquid methamphetamine, the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace in Arizona mentioned in a press launch.
The investigation into Moreno-Vasquez began in 2017 when officers seized 52 sealed beverage bottles that have been stuffed with the substance within the southeastern United States.
Authorities have been then led to a second seizure in Arizona in 2017, the place the liquid methamphetamine was being smuggled right into a leisure automobile that was destined for Atlanta.
The medication have been hidden in bottles that appeared as iced tea, juice and ginger ale.
Homeland Safety Investigations and the Drug Enforcement Administration investigated the case.