Doctor sentenced to 7 years for trafficking heroin: "physician from Mexico who was among a group who each transported more than a kilogram of heroin from Arizona to New York City has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison.
The U.S. attorney's office in Phoenix says another man from San Luis, Mexico, who also was involved in the smuggling ring got a slightly lower sentence.
U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow sentenced 39-year-old Dr. Jose David Portillo Lopez this week. A co-defendant, 38-year-old Juan Bautista Beltran Lopez, was sentenced last month. Both had pleaded guilty to heroin trafficking charges.
Court records show Portillo and Beltran and two women picked up footwear containing 5 kilos of heroin in San Luis, Ariz., in December 2007. Federal agents investigating a Columbian cartel tracked them as they drove to Manhattan, where they were arrested."
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