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- Title: United States v. Solis
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Release Date : January 18, 2002
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 86 KB
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This appeal arises from a 36-count indictment of 29 defendants for conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine in Plano, Texas and individual violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). Eleven defendants went to trial, ten were convicted of conspiracy and various individual drug offenses, and nine--Jose Cleotide Solis, Eliserio Martinez Garcia, Salvador Pineda Contreras, Francisco Favela, Alfonzo Meza, Arturo Meza, Hilario Merlan Solis, Aurelio Mendez, and Jose Alberto Meza--now appeal their convictions and sentences.I. Factual background In September 1997, a concerted effort by local and federal law enforcement agencies to apprehend heroin traffickers in Plano, Texas led to the formation of the Plano Heroin Task Force. The governments investigation determined that in late 1996 Aurelio Mendez and Ecliserio Martinez Garcia were part of a conspiracy to import heroin from Guerrero, Mexico, where it was manufactured, to North Texas. Mendez and Garcia sold the heroin to Hilario Merlan Solis. Hilarios brother Jose Cleotide Solis then distributed the heroin until he was arrested on July 9, 1997.