Could 8, 2024 – The USA Legal professional's Workplace for the Center District of Pennsylvania introduced that on Could 6, 2024, Christopher Texidor, 36, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced following a jury trial for trafficking greater than 1,000 kilograms (2,200 kilos) of marijuana and gun fraud to guard his unlawful actions. The trial, held earlier than U.S. District Decide Jennifer P. Wilson, lasted six days, and the jury deliberated for about 4 hours earlier than returning its verdict.
In response to US Legal professional Gerard M. Karam, between October 2018 and Could 2020, Texidor and his co-defendants operated a marijuana smuggling operation out of Fastlane Auto Gross sales, a used automobile lot situated on Paxton Avenue in Harrisburg. Texidor and his co-defendants organized to have their drug supply in California mail lots of of packages stuffed with marijuana to Harrisburg by means of the US Mail. In the identical manner, they frequently despatched tens of hundreds of {dollars} in money again to the California supply. Texidor and his codefendants used a complicated system of GPS monitoring gadgets, which they positioned of their packages, to trace their medicine and cash. Via this scheme, greater than 9,000 thousand kilos of suspected marijuana packages, value tens of millions of {dollars}, had been introduced into the Harrisburg space.
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Man Convicted of Smuggling Over 1,000 KILOS of Marijuana into Harrisburg through USPS Mail, Hires Gunmen to Defend Shipments
