SAN ANTONIO – An immigrant was sentenced to more than 21 years in federal prison Wednesday for trafficking drugs to San Antonio and other areas of South Texas, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Pablo Torres-Zaragoza, 42, of Mexico, was sentenced to 262 months behind bars on Dec. 4, 2024, the news release said.
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Torres-Zaragoza and Marco Antonio Morales-Perez, 51, continued to traffic methamphetamine and Heroin to San Antonio and areas of South Texas while being incarcerated in Oklahoma on federal charges, the release stated.
The U.S. Department of Justice said Morales-Perez and Torres-Zaragoza used cellphones smuggled into the Great Plains Correctional Institution by drones to coordinate drug deliveries, court documents show.
Drug Enforcement Administration agents seized 160 kilograms of methamphetamine and 12 kilograms of Heroin throughout the investigation.
Five additional co-defendants, alongside Morales-Perez and Torres-Zaragoza, were also sentenced to federal prison for various lengths of time, according to the release.
The DEA investigated the case with assistance from the San Antonio Police Department, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, the Great Plains Correctional Facility, the Hollywood Park Police Department, the Castle Hills Police Department, the Live Oak Police Department, the Leon Valley Police Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the Houston Police Department.