Man sentenced for trying to smuggle 5,000 grams of heroin into Dulles

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Man sentenced for trying to smuggle 5,000 grams of heroin into Dulles

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A 23-year-old Rhode Island man will spend five years and 10 months in federal prison for trying to smuggle about $500,000 worth of heroin into Washington Dulles International Airport in December 2009.

Emmanuel Rios, who was sentenced July 30, tried to smuggle the heroin into the country concealed in juice boxes, said Peter Carr, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Rios pleaded guilty Feb. 26 to conspiring to distribute heroin.

According to court documents, he arrived at Dulles on a flight from Guatemala. Upon his arrival, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents found two small crates containing Incaparina juice boxes in his luggage.

Each of the two packages had 24 separate juice boxes bundled together, and the CBP officer noticed the packages did not contain a liquid. Instead, the boxes contained a light brown powdery substance wrapped within a condom.

Although Rios claimed the contents contained a powder that should be dissolved in water to become a fruit juice, the powder was tested and found to be heroin. The officers collected 41 condom-wrapped pellets, which contained a total weight of 4,974 grams of heroin – a street value in Washington, D.C., of about $500,000.

At the end of his prison sentence, Rios will serve four years of supervised probation.

Comments

Thu, Aug 05 at 12:52 PM by always right:

So if you drag a dog behind your car to death you get 3 years in jail! Heroin is everywhere…and cheap to buy due to the war in Afghanistan he should only have to server 3 years and the guy dragging the dog to death behind his car should get 5 years.

Wed, Aug 04 at 03:27 PM by Sally Prescott:

Ah, the old two-cases-of-juicebox trick.. just what most 23-year olds are carrying through customs.. not suspicious at all! Now we have another moron in jail at taxpayers’ expense. Next time just fly him back to Guatemala.

Tue, Aug 03 at 08:00 PM by Andy:

Hez Pez is an idiot. Theres the real problem with America right there.

Tue, Aug 03 at 03:09 AM by bigph:

“Send him back to Guam or wherever he’s from. Another reason to get more immigrants out of the US.”

Oh yeah, like that’s the answer! What a moron. As if only immigrants are breaking laws, and illegals are responsible for all our troubles. This guy is probably not an illegal, but rather an idiot who thought he could make it past customs. Like the guy who tryed smuggling cocain inside a chicken!

Mon, Aug 02 at 09:05 AM by KLB:

I say his “supervised probation” should be the time it takes to carry his casket to his grave, scum like this that are poisoning out children should rot and die in prison. NO second chances for drug smugglers.

Sun, Aug 01 at 02:53 PM by Steven:

Successful troll is successful.

Sat, Jul 31 at 09:52 AM by Jana Wagoner:

Atlas Shrugged: Yes. He was traveling with a U.S. passport that was his.

Fri, Jul 30 at 05:28 PM by Atlas Shrugged:

Dear Jana, is Sr. Rios a citizen of these United States?

Fri, Jul 30 at 05:27 PM by NG:

uh,hello….Guam is a US territory - and he was flying back from Guatemala - it didn’t say he was from there. He’s from Rhode Island.

Fri, Jul 30 at 05:01 PM by R. Smyth:

Not sure why they thought this plan would work. Who carries around a bunch of juice boxes?

Fri, Jul 30 at 04:46 PM by Alby:

Emmanuel Rios would have had better luck walking across the US Border in Arizona. lol

Fri, Jul 30 at 03:36 PM by Hez Pez:

Send him back to Guam or wherever he’s from. Another reason to get more immigrants out of the US.

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