Local News in Brief : Drug Dealer Gets 3 Additional Years
Millionaire cattle rancher Leonardo Subias, who is serving 10 years in prison for cocaine trafficking and is a suspect in the slaying of an American drug agent, was sentenced Monday to an additional three years in prison for jumping bail in 1980.
Subias, 42, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Aug. 31 for selling about 2.2 pounds of cocaine to an undercover officer in Monterey Park in April, 1980. When that indictment was returned in 1980, Subias posted bail and fled. He remained a fugitive until he was arrested in Salt Lake City last April.
U.S. District Judge Jesse Curtis sentenced him Monday to the three extra years in prison for failing to appear in court.
Prosecutors have said that Subias is a suspect in the February, 1985, murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena and his pilot in Mexico, but he has not been charged in that case. Three others have been convicted of participating in the killings.
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