Seven-Year Sentence for Marijuana Stop
Posted/updated on: November 3, 2010 at 1:18 pm
TEXARKANA — A 33-year-old Edinburg man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking in East Texas. Luis Antonio Palomo pleaded guilty on Aug. 24 to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana. Palomo was sentenced in Texarkana to 84 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge David Folsom. According to information presented in court, on Dec. 19, 2009, Palomo and a co-defendant were stopped for speeding on Interstate 30 in Titus County. Palomo gave DPS troopers consent to search the rental truck he was driving. During the search, troopers located bundles containing over 928 kilograms of marijuana. Palomo was indicted by a federal grand jury on Jan. 6, 2010.
