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South Texas councilman sentenced to 16 years for marijuana trafficking

Matthew Peterson

Dallas Morning News

Friday 03 Oct 2008

A City Council member in the South Texas town of Carrizo Springs has been sentenced to 16 years in federal prison for marijuana trafficking, the U.S. attorney's office announced today.

Herardo Ortiz, 54, was convicted in April for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than a ton of marijuana between May 2001 and December 2007.

That's when authorities at a border checkpoint in Laredo seized 100 pounds of pot from a pickup driven by Mr. Ortiz. The following month, a ton and a half of marijuana was found in a tractor owned by Mr. Ortiz.

U.S. District Judge Michaela Alvarez denied Mr. Ortiz's request to reduce his sentence to 10 years. He told the judge that men in his family are "genetically predisposed" to die at an early age and that anything beyond 10 years was tantamount to a death sentence.

Instead the judge gave him 200 months without the possibility of parole.

 

 

 

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