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By: Real America News Updated 08 Sea 2022, 10: 02 AM EST
Candelaria Vallejo-Gallo, aged 54 years old, of Aurora, Colorado, was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin.
She was also sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring to commit money laundering. Their sentences must be served at the same time, reported the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado.
Vallejo-Gallo reached a plea agreement on actions that occurred between March 2019 to February 2020 to transport and distribute large quantities of illegal drugs, working with supply sources based in Mexico.
The drug was received in California and the woman accomplished her task by employing a network of interstate freight carriers, local brokers, multi-pound drug customers and lieutenants, the Justice Department said.
“During this period, law enforcement agencies seized more than 100 pounds of methamphetamine, more than two kilograms of heroin, approximately two kilograms of cocaine and approximately one and a half kilograms of fentanyl pills.
The drugs came from shipments or packages destined for the defendant and seized in Utah and Colorado.
The authorities managed to capture the drug trafficker, after intercepting calls from the accused and other members of her organization, for which the FBI handed them a trap.
“Since March 2019 through January 2020, the FBI purchased more than six kilograms of methamphetamine, as well as a quantity of heroin, in more than a dozen controlled purchases of drugs from the accused”, it was indicated. “The defendant was also observed actively distributing drugs, including a ten pound distribution of methamphetamine in July of 2019.”
Vallejo-Gallo also threatened members of the organization that he considered disloyal and expressed his desire to kill rivals, according to his own phone calls.
“Removing dangerous drug dealers from our streets is a central part of our strategy to make Colorado a safer place,” said US Attorney Cole Finegan.
The FBI special agent in Denver, Michael H. Schneider, highlighted that the actions against Vallejo-Gallo were in coordination with state and local authorities .
“The FBI will continue to investigate individuals and groups who attempt to promote the scourge of drugs and violence in the areas we serve ”, he expressed.
District Court Judge Raymond Moore sentenced Vallejo-Gallo on March 4, 2020.