Major Cocaine Shipper Sentenced to Life Term Without Parole
A drug dealer who operated the Southland’s second-largest interstate cocaine trucking network out of a warehouse in Rancho Cucamonga in San Bernardino County has been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, federal officials announced Tuesday.
Roberto Nicolas Castro, 39, a Colombian national, was convicted in February of masterminding the nationwide distribution of more than 1 1/2 tons of cocaine valued at $141 million.
“What he did to other members of society in the careless disregard and reckless disregard (for) the damage that might be imposed on others is an offense of almost monumental nature,” U.S. District Judge Laughlin E. Waters said in passing sentence Monday.
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