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Illegal
gets 25 years for drug charge
Date:
3/8/2008
The Post
and Courier
Saturday, March 8, 2008
An illegal immigrant from Mexico was sentenced to a mandatory 25 years in
state prison this week after a Charleston County jury convicted him of selling a
quarter-kilo of cocaine to an undercover Mount Pleasant police officer,
authorities said.
Jose Luis Gutierrez Hernandez, 34, was sentenced Tuesday by Circuit Judge
Markley Dennis. He was convicted of selling the drugs in connection with an Aug.
7, 2006, "buy-bust" operation at a strip mall parking lot on Long Point Road.
Hernandez likely will be deported after completing his sentence. Co-defendant
Eduardo Pacheco Martinez received 18 years in prison after pleading guilty
Monday. Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson called Hernandez's bravado about
his drug-dealing past "sickening."
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