Paul Longoria was sentenced this week to 12 years in federal prison on felony drug charges.

Paul Longoria will have years behind bars to reflect on his decision to turn a Forsyth County fence company into a front for cocaine trafficking.
Longoria was sentenced this week to 12 years in federal prison on felony drug charges. He was ordered to serve another five years on probation after his release, said Patrick Crosby, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Atlanta.
Longoria was arrested in May 2007 at Crown Fence in northern Forsyth County. The company was undistinguished from the thousands of small businesses that fill office parks across Forsyth County and metro Atlanta, but for one unusual detail: Refrigerated trucks kept showing up.Authorities said that's ultimately what prompted another tenant of the office park to raise the red flag.Longoria and two others were accused of bringing large shipments of cocaine by tractor-trailer from Texas to Crown Fence in a small business park off Brown's Bridge Road.
On May 3, 2007, agents with the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office and federal DEA found 200 kilograms of cocaine in a nonworking walk-in freezer at the fence company's warehouse.The cocaine, which authorities say likely was destined for sale on the eastern seaboard, reportedly was transported under a load of vegetables.Longoria initially pleaded innocent to the drug charges but changed his plea to guilty in May.At the sentencing hearing, Longoria and several members of his family pleaded with U.S. District Court Judge Charles A. Pannell Jr. for leniency, Crosby said.He said Longoria had no prior record for any serious offense.

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Daniel Bailey has been told to pay up £194,370 by a court. If he fails to hand over the money within six months, he will face a three-year jail term.

Daniel Bailey (35) avoided prison when he received a 26-week suspended sentence after pleading guilty to producing cannabis. But following a separate investigation into his finances by police, he has been told to pay up £194,370 by a court. If he fails to hand over the money within six months, he will face a three-year jail term.During a hearing brought by police under the Proceeds of Crime Act, Lincoln Crown Court was told officers swooped on Bailey's home, near Spalding, on August 5, 2005. They searched the property and found 22 cannabis plants growing among the flowers in his back garden.More cannabis seedlings were discovered in a shed, and two small lumps of the drug were seized in the house.Bailey was subsequently convicted of production of cannabis, which triggered the probe into his financial affairs.The further enquiries showed that in the six years before his arrest, Bailey had claimed incapacity benefit and income support to the tune of more than £21,000, to which he was...

Vanessa and Juan Bedoya, Meneses and Rodriguez-Jimenez are being held in DuPage County Jail in lieu of $1 million bond each.

Vanessa Bedoya, 37, and Juan Bedoya, 38, both of the 1400 block of Green Oak Trail, Aurora, were charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.Juan Meneses, 32, and Gonzalo Rodriguez-Jimenez, 38, both of the 800 block of Amli Court, Aurora, were charged with unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, the Kane County state's attorney's office said.According to prosecutors, on March 25, Rodriguez-Jimenez and Meneses delivered more than 900 grams of cocaineto another unnamed person. Later, more than 900 grams of cocaine were recovered from Juan and Vanessa Bedoya, who are married. The cocaine was recovered at the home of Francisco Bedoya, 36, also of the 1400 block of Green Oak Trail, Aurora. In addition, more than 900 grams of cocaine was recovered in the home of Juan and Vanessa Bedoya, prosecutors said. Officers searched three Aurora homes Tuesday and found 15 kilograms of cocaine, worth about $4.5 million, along with $50,000 in cash and two vehicle...

Riaz Mohammed, used a string of front companies to ship the highly addictive narcotic from Turkey.

Riaz Mohammed, used a string of front companies to ship the highly addictive narcotic from Turkey.The Court heard the "sophisticated" operation involved hiding half-kilo packages of the Class A substance in the hollowed out struts of wooden pallets. But despite the gang's best efforts each of the three importations - two to Dover docks and one which arrived at Heathrow airport - were intercepted during an investigation by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).Altogether 24kg of the drug - with an estimated street value of £2.3 million - was seized. In the dock with Mohammed, 41, of Lancaster Road, Leytonstone, east London (25 years), were his lieutenant Ibrahim Janturk, 52, from Tottenham, north London (22 years), and "footsoldiers" Cetin Albar, 35, who lived in Clapton Common, east London, and Emircan Aytac, 48, of Boyson Road, Walworth, south-east London, who got 16 years each.Mohammed was convicted by a jury of three counts of conspiracy to import heroin ...

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