Josue Daniel Casco has also been charged with murder over the death 2017 deaths of a...
The seal for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas sits on a chair in the Federal Courthouse Tuesday Sept. 18, 2018 in Houston., nearly two years after he pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute 15 kilos of methamphetamine.MORE ON HOUSTONCHRONICLE.COMIn October 2020, Casco was arrested in a IKEA parking lot after undercover investigators learned of a plan to sell the drugs for more than $100,000, according to the U.S.
Casco and another man were arrested, charged and ordered to be kept in federal custody. The men were also accused of carrying loaded weapons at the time of their arrest.Last year he was charged with capital murderHe was accused of shooting Robert Cerda, with whom he had an ongoing dispute, on Dec. 12, 2017, inside a hair salon on Long Point Drive.
At the time of his arrest in the homicide, Casco was already in federal custody. The murder charge is still pending in the Harris County court system.
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