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.
Emmanuel rios is a united states citizens with that said he can’t be send to guatemala since he is not from there. And I agree what he did was more than wrong but the only person that can judge anyone is god I’m pretty sure everyone including myself on this page have make a mistake it may be something little but it still a mistake and everyone does deserve a second chance in life. If any of you have a child then let me said this don’t, judge your son or daughter might be young now but one day they going to make their own dessicions and you never know where they might be a good one or one like emmanuel did. I’m pretty sure that he is a shame cause him two have a son growing up and now he wishes to hug him and kiss him maybe playbaseball like he’s father did with him and he can’t and yes he should it though about it before he did it but he didn’t. I know is human nature to judge others but we should all think what if I or one of my loved ones would it done something like that would I ask for some mercy two and don’t never said you would never do anything to put your self in jail cause we know what happen today but we don’t know was going to happen tomorrow. May god bless everyone and be with you and emmanuel always….
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.
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.
Hez Pez is an idiot. Theres the real problem with America right there.
“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!
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.
Successful troll is successful.
Atlas Shrugged: Yes. He was traveling with a U.S. passport that was his.
Dear Jana, is Sr. Rios a citizen of these United States?
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.
Not sure why they thought this plan would work. Who carries around a bunch of juice boxes?
Emmanuel Rios would have had better luck walking across the US Border in Arizona. lol
Send him back to Guam or wherever he’s from. Another reason to get more immigrants out of the US.
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