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Saturday, March 24, 2001
Sentencing in drug case involving
ex-Cowboy
SHERMAN, Texas (AP) — Four men who
worked for the same drug rings that supplied former Dallas Cowboys
player Mark Tuinei with a lethal dose of heroin were sentenced
to long prison terms.
Jesus Carbajal, Julian Solis Perez, Andres
Milan and Favian Ramos each faced a maximum sentence of life
in prison and a $4 million fine.
They had been charged with conspiracy to
distribute heroin and cocaine.
Carbajal was sentenced Thursday by Judge
Paul Brown in Sherman to life in prison. On Friday, Brown sentenced
Perez and Milan to 11 year prison terms and Ramos to 12 years.
A lawyer for at least one of the defendants
planned to appeal.
“We think the sentence is very unfair
because we have contended all along that he was just an innocent
bystander,” said Ramos' attorney, Michael Samonek.
According to testimony at the four-day
trial, the men were part of two drug rings that operated in Dallas
and Denton. Officials said the groups imported drugs from California
and Mexico and then distributed them throughout North Texas.
Tuinei, a former offensive tackle for the
Cowboys, died in 1999 after taking heroin and a form of the drug
Ecstasy.
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