A San Antonio woman who brought her two children along as she smuggled more than 100...
A San Antonio woman who brought her two children along as she smuggled more than 100 pounds of methamphetamine to the Alamo City has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison.
Karen Lastiri, 32, was sentenced for possession with the intent to distribute, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas. The Drug Enforcement Administration had been tipped off that Lastiri was a drug and money courier and had been surveilling her. On Oct. 26, 2021, Lastiri drove from San Antonio to Houston and spent about 50 minutes in Houston before driving back to San Antonio, a federal complaint said.Mexican national, reported self-proclaimed witch doctor, gets 25 years for meth distribution
As Lastiri entered Bexar County, sheriff’s deputies stopped Lastiri’s Toyota Rav-4 and found 115 pounds of methamphetamine in a black suitcase and an open box. Federal prosecutors said Lastiri’s two children were in the car within reach of the drugs. “Lastiri worked as a driver for a drug trafficking organization and put her children’s lives at risk by bringing them on this job,” U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza of the Western District of Texas said.
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