Daily News | The trucker who hauled nearly $4M worth of cocaine and heroin through Bucks County was sentenced to state prison
he was hauling through Pennsylvania was sentenced Tuesday to 7½ to 15 years in state prison.
“He was capable of bringing in legitimate money, but opted instead to do this,” Stricker said. “It doesn’t matter who pulled him in. ... He wasn’t thinking of his girlfriend in Mexico or his girlfriend’s son. He was thinking of the quick buck he could make by peddling poison and killing people.” Busico said Ochoa, who has no criminal record, was a legitimate businessman who had been lured into carrying the drugs on the promise of making some extra money.
During an interview with detectives, Ochoa said he was a trucker and had been told by a contact in Mexico to drive his tractor trailer to a location in California, leave it unlocked, and then deliver the package left inside to a woman in Philadelphia, prosecutors said. That woman, Edith Rodriguez Cardenas, was in the passenger seat of the Jeep when Ochoa was pulled over.
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