CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : FRESNO : Man Gets 10 Years in Huge Drug Case
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A Turlock man was sentenced to 10 1/2 years in federal prison in what authorities called the largest narcotics case in Stanislaus County history. Jose Ibarra, 35, had pleaded guilty to distributing cocaine and possessing a firearm in the commission of a crime. After Ibarra was arrested in November, the Stanislaus Drug Enforcement Agency said it had broken a ring that had channeled millions of dollars of illegal drugs through Modesto for the last 20 years.
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