TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A resident of Sinaloa, Mexico, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in Arizona after pleading guilty to drug trafficking charges.
Pilar Angel Leon-Beltran, 44, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime on March 22, according to a news release from The United States Attorney's Office District of Arizona.
Previously on supervised release, Leon-Beltran was found transporting 90,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl with three co-conspirators by Arizona DPS in Scottsdale in April of 2022.
Two of Leon-Beltran's co-conspirators, Enrique Flores-Diaz and Denisse Calderon-Razura, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl.
Flores-Diaz was sentenced to 78 months in prison. Calderon-Razura was sentenced to 15 months.
The third co-conspirator, Laura Elena Hambrick, an accessory after the fact, awaits sentencing on January 18, 2024.
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