LUBBOCK, TEXAS – Two members of a three-person methamphetamine trafficking ring were given lengthy prison sentences last week in U.S. District Court.
Two of the defendants, Michael Armenta, 19, and Fernando Valenzuela-Ceballos, 26, received lengthy federal prison sentences of 17 years and five months and more than 21 years behind bars, respectively.
Armenta’s wife, Kutleza Aurora Rodriguez, 19, was sentenced to two years and three months in prison.
Armenta and Valenzuela-Ceballos will also be deported after they have served their sentences.
Armenta, aka “Alex,” and Valenzuela-Ceballos, aka “Gordo,” each pleaded guilty in November 2013 to one count of possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and aiding and abetting, according to authorities.
On September 2, 2013, authorities said officers with the Lubbock Police Department, who were investigating Armenta and Valenzuela-Ceballos, executed a search warrant and found seven pounds of methamphetamine, 13 empty one-pound wrappings that appeared to have contained pound quantities of methamphetamine, drug ledgers, packaging materials, scales, approximately $16,000 in cash and two firearms.