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Drug Felony Conviction Lands Illegal Alien in Prison for Life

By Conaway and Strickler

Illegal Alien gets Life in Prison for Role in Huge Drug Ring A U.S. District judge sentenced defendant Olivar Martinez-Blanco to life in prison without parole on December 9, 2008 on Federal drug felony charges stemming from his role in a massive cocaine distribution conspiracy. Martinez-Blanco is an illegal alien who had been deported twice from the United States and had racked-up two separate drug felony convictions. He was convicted in mid-September of his third felony, for which the federal system allows no parole. According to the prosecution?s case, Martinez-Blanco was working as a lookout for fellow-defendant Victor Giles-Morales when the Georgia State Patrol stopped Giles-Morales' van. Martinez-Blanco fled the scene while patrollers discovered 15 kilos of narcotics in the van...continue to full post

Full post as published by Georgia Criminal Defense Blog on December 24, 2008 (boomark / email).