Inmate Gets Additional Prison Time
Posted/updated on: March 7, 2012 at 2:20 am
TEXARKANA – A federal inmate has received an additional term of imprisonment for possession of contraband. Benito Lopez-Chapa, a 44 year old Rio Grande City resident, who is currently confined at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, was sentenced to 6 months during a hearing Monday before United States District Judge David Folsom.
According to information presented in court, on December 30, 2010, a search of Lopez-Chapa’s locker led to the discovery of a pair of gym shorts that contained nine small folded pieces of paper hidden in the elastic waist band. Correctional officers discovered that the folded pieces of paper contained marijuana.
