Criminology and Psychology

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...