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Drug trafficker sentenced to life without release
DAYTON — A man convicted of leading a drug ring that brought hundreds of kilograms of cocaine to southwest Ohio was sentenced Tuesday, Sept. 29, to life in federal prison without the possibility of release.
Daniel Garcia-Guia, 28, a Mexican national who was living in Dayton, appeared before U.S. District Senior Judge Walter H. Rice. Following a six-week trial, Garcia-Guia was convicted June 4 of one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, one count of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, and one count of being a principal leader of a continuing criminal enterprise which involved at least 150 kilograms of cocaine.
Garcia-Guia’s organization brought drugs to southwest Ohio from 2005 until his arrest in April 2007, according to federal authorities. As part of the investigation, DEA and FBI agents in El Paso intercepted 25 kilograms of cocaine bound for Dayton, worth approximately $750,000 wholesale.
Garcia-Guia and his co-conspirators maintained real property (or “stash houses”) in the Dayton area, where large amounts of cocaine were stored, packaged and distributed. During the execution of a search warrant in 2005, investigators seized more than $3 million in cash from one of the stash houses, said William E. Hunt, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio.
Twenty-two others indicted along with Garcia-Guia in and after May 2007 have entered guilty pleas and have been sentenced or are awaiting sentencing. Two others remain at large and are believed to have left the country. An additional defendant is believed to have been murdered while in Mexico, Hunt said.
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