LINCOLN, NE – After more than a year since being busted for transporting 730 pounds of marijuana in produce boxes, Julio Pena Sanchez and Marcel Bud have both been sentenced in a U.S. District Court.
The Lincoln Journal Star reports that Lancaster County District Judge Steven Burns sentenced both men to two to four years in prison. Bud, however, will be eligible for parole after one year.
According to court records, prosecutors lowered Bud’s charge and dropped another in exchange for a guilty plea to attempted possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.
On November 4, 2013, state troopers discovered Bud had a warrant for failing to appear in Lincoln County during an inspection of the J&J Transport truck he and Sanchez were co-driving, according to CBS Detroit.
Bud was then arrested and Sanchez was temporarily allowed to go on. The truck was later searched, and troopers found bundles of pot hidden in produce boxes with an estimated street value of $2.5 million. Sanchez was then taken into custody.
Sanchez could reportedly face deportation upon completion of his sentence.
