A Rutland man was sentenced to 17 years in prison on charges that involved multiple kilograms of cocaine and heroin, as well as thousands of opiate painkiller pills.
David Baez Garcia, 49, was sentenced March 18 in federal court in Burlington. He had pleaded guilty five days into a jury trial in September.
Baez Garcia, with the help of two others, brought several kilos of heroin and cocaine to Vermont between 2009 and 2010, according to a news release from the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Vermont.
The heroin and some of the cocaine came from a source in Providence, Rhode Island. Baez Garcia also received large shipments of cocaine from two of his brothers-in-law. They got the drug from a Mexican drug cartel and shipped it across the country in tractor-trailers to New England.
The final shipment to Vermont was 10 kilograms, worth more than $300,000, according to the release.
Sixteen other people have been convicted in connection with this drug distribution ring, authorities said.
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