Jose Ramirez-Arellano was sentenced to a decade in federal prison for attempting to traffic five kilograms of cocaine.
A man convicted of attempting to traffic cocaine that was shipped to Chicago learned his sentence last week. A judge sentenced 33-year-old Jose Ramirez-Arellano to 10 years in federal prison on January 17. Ramirez-Arellano pleaded guilty last year to a federal drug charge. His sentence stems from an incident that occurred in February 2022 when Ramirez-Arellano arranged to receive a package containing approximately five kilograms of cocaine.
The package was shipped from southern California to his residence in Chicago. Law enforcement agents intercepted the package and replaced the real cocaine with fake cocaine before delivering it to Ramirez-Arellano's home. After receiving the package, Ramirez-Arellano took it to a hotel in downtown Chicago, where he was arrested. Ramirez-Arellano also received a second shipment of approximately five kilograms of cocaine that same month. Law enforcement seized two packages of bulk cash linked to Ramirez-Arellano, which contained about $43,550, prosecutors said. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Parthum stated the following in the government's sentencing memorandum: 'The cocaine that defendant attempted to possess and distribute represented thousands of street-level user quantities of this highly addictive and dangerous narcotic. Had defendant succeeded in receiving and distributing that cocaine, it would have exacerbated the crisis of addiction and cocaine-related harms and deaths.
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