A former Mexican attorney was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for his role in a drug trafficking ring connected to an Aryan prison gang.
The U.S. Attorney's Office announced that on Friday, 38-year-old Gustavo Castellanos-Tapia of Burien was sentenced to 90 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Castellanos-Tapia was indicted along with 23 others in March 2023 for trafficking meth, fentanyl, cocaine and heroin into Washington.According to court records, Castellanos-Tapia was formerly a lawyer in Mexico, before illegally traveling to the U.S.
Agents seized some 255 pounds of meth, 830,000 fentanyl pills, 26 lbs of fentanyl powder, cocaine, six lbs of heroin, $668,000 in drug money and 225 firearms."Drugs like the methamphetamine that Castellanos-Tapia distributed have a devastating impact on the community," prosecutors wrote, asking for a nine-year prison sentence. "Users of these drugs frequently resort to stealing—from family members, friends, and complete strangers—to feed their addictions.
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