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          LOS ANGELES <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A Mexican national was sentenced this week to five years and three months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute nearly 120 pounds of methamphetamine, according to officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The methamphetamine had been dropped in the desert by an airplane that had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          Juan Carlos Iturriaga-Centeno, 34, a one-time resident of Mecca, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Dale S. Fischer. Iturriaga-Centeno pleaded guilty on April 30 to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          In December 2019, Iturriaga-Centeno and his co-conspirators drove off-road utility vehicles into the desert near North Shore, a Riverside County community located near the Salton Sea. There, they waited for an ultralight airplane, which had crossed the United States-Mexico border, to drop packages of methamphetamine, which were attached to a parachute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The methamphetamine had GPS tracking devices attached to it and Iturriaga-Centeno and the co-conspirators used a cell phone to locate the GPS trackers and retrieve the package of methamphetamine. The packages contained 116.4 pounds (52.8 kilograms) of methamphetamine, according to court documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Border Patrol and the Air and Marine Operations Center in Riverside tracked the ultralight airplane as it crossed the international border near Calexico, according to court documents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After radar surveillance indicated that the aircraft descended and then headed back to Mexico, a California Highway Patrol aircraft saw two vehicles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two vehicles left the area and were intercepted by a marked Border Patrol vehicle. A Polaris off-road vehicle occupied by Iturriaga-Centeno and his brother, Leonardo Iturriago-Centeno, 30, stopped, but a Can-Am vehicle with two other men sped away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Can-Am vehicle was driven into the Coachella Canal, and the Border Patrol rescued Victor Efren Bugarin-Perez, 30, of Mecca, and Juan Favela-Paredez, 26, a Mexican national, when they were unable to exit the canal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Favela-Paredez and Leonardo Iturriaga-Centeno \u2013 each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judge Fischer sentenced both defendants to 57 months in federal prison. Bugarin-Perez, the case\u2019s lead defendant, fled after being freed on bond in this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          The Drug Enforcement Administration investigated this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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