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Three men who were sent by the Sinaloa Cartel to Lubbock, Texas, to distribute methamphetamine for the cartel were sentenced to lengthy federal prison sentences last week.

Juan Carlos Pinales (23) was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison, Ramon Osvaldo Escobar-Robles (25) received 78 months in federal prison, and Jesus Mario Moreno-Perez (24) got 120 months in federal prison. Each man pleaded guilty last year to one count of possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and aiding and abetting. Escobar-Robles and Moreno-Perez are in the U.S. illegally.

According to documents filed in the case, a joint investigation by the FBI, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office and the Lubbock Police Department revealed that the Sinaloa cartel had sent three individuals to Lubbock to distribute methamphetamine for the cartel. In June 2015, a search warrant was executed at their residence on Birch Avenue in Lubbock.

At the time the warrant was executed, the three defendants were home. The search by law enforcement yielded several containers or bags of suspected methamphetamine in the attic; cash; numerous cell phones; money transfer receipts; and a spiral notebook that contained writings consistent with a drug ledger, showing amounts distributed to and owed by various persons.                                                  

A DPS crime laboratory analysis confirmed that the substance found in two red Tupperware containers was, in fact, methamphetamine with a net weight of 1,797.92 grams and a purity level of at least 91.7%.  All three defendants admitted they jointly possessed the methamphetamine found in the attic.

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