Illegal Alien Sentenced for Selling Drugs
Posted/updated on: December 1, 2010 at 11:20 am
TYLER — A 24-year-old illegal alien living in Tyler has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking in East Texas. Saul Velazquez-Castro pleaded guilty on Aug. 30 to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of methamphetamine and was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison. Velazquez-Castro was also ordered to forfeit $10,000.
According to information presented in court, on Nov. 2, 2009, Velazquez-Castro was arrested and found to be possession of 4 ounces of methamphetamine, which he intended to sell to others in the Tyler area. Velazquez-Castro was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 14, 2010 and charged with federal drug trafficking violations. It was also determined that Velazquez-Castro was illegally in the United States. He will be deported to Mexico after he has served his prison sentence.
