{"id":263707,"date":"2013-06-17T16:28:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T21:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=263707"},"modified":"2013-06-19T02:04:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T07:04:16","slug":"mexican-nationals-sentenced-for-drug-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=263707","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Nationals Sentenced for Drug Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/06\/Federal-Courthouse-A1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/06\/Federal-Courthouse-A1.jpg\" alt=\"Federal Courthouse-A\" width=\"111\" height=\"88\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-263708\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Two Mexican nationals living in Tyler have been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking. Jose Ruben Vaca-Saucedo, 26, pleaded guilty on Mar. 4, 2013, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and was sentenced to 80 months in federal prison Monday by U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis. The court also ordered the defendant to submit to forfeiture of $10,000. Vaca-Saucedo&#8217;s brother, Juan Carlos Vaca, 28, pleaded guilty on Mar. 4, 2013, to distribution of methamphetamine and was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison Monday by Judge Davis. Vaca was ordered to submit to forfeiture of $2,600.  Federal Prosecutors say from May 2010 to January 2011, the brothers conspired to possess more than 182 grams of methamphetamine which they intended to deliver to others in the Tyler area. A federal grand jury returned an indictment on February 1, 2012, charging the brothers with drug trafficking violations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Two Mexican nationals living in Tyler have been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking. Jose Ruben Vaca-Saucedo, 26, pleaded guilty on Mar. 4, 2013, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and was sentenced to 80 months in federal prison Monday by U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis. The court &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=263707\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mexican Nationals Sentenced for Drug Violations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 06:59:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263707"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263945,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263707\/revisions\/263945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}