DRUG TRAFFICKER GET 20 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON

Eduardo Frias-Cobos, 40, will serve 20 years in federal prison for methamphetamine trafficking, U.S. Attorney Tom Moss announced.

Frias-Cobos, a resident of Salinas, California, was arrested on October 30, 2007, by the Idaho State Police and DEA as he and others attempted to deliver nine pounds of methamphetamine in Nampa. A jury later found him and others guilty of participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy that delivered several pounds of methamphetamine to Nampa.

Frias-Cobos was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge at the Federal Courthouse in Boise. He was the final defendant of the conspiracy to be sentenced. Earlier this year, the group’s leader, Graciano Marquez-Huazo, was sentenced to over 32 years in federal prison for methamphetamine trafficking. Frias-Cobos, who was in the United States illegally, will be deported following his prison sentence.