{"id":55719,"date":"2010-11-30T11:41:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T17:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=55719"},"modified":"2010-12-01T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T17:20:07","slug":"illegal-alien-sentenced-for-selling-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=55719","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Alien Sentenced for Selling Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=55720\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55720\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/11\/164300-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"164300\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-55720\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=55719\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Illegal Alien Sentenced for Selling Drugs<\/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-55719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 00:24:59","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\/55719","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=55719"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55930,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55719\/revisions\/55930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}