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Northern District of Texas

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GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, MAN SENTENCED TO NEARLY 20 YEARS
IN FEDERAL PRISON, WITHOUT PAROLE,
FOR DISTRIBUTION OF METHAMPHETAMINE

Conrado Giron was sentenced today by the Honorable John McBryde, United States District Judge, to 235 months imprisonment as a result of his conviction in June on a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Richard B. Roper. Giron, age 34, of Grand Prairie, has been in custody since his arrest in May following the undercover drug sale.

Giron pled guilty in June to one count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. In late May, Giron met with Adriana Martinez-Ramos and an undercover police officer at an apartment in Grand Prairie, Texas and discussed selling methamphetamine to the undercover officer. They agreed that the undercover officer would rent a room at a hotel in Arlington, Texas and that Giron and Martinez-Ramos would deliver one pound of methamphetamine to the officer at the hotel room. Later that day, Martinez-Ramos delivered the methamphetamine to the undercover officer in his room at the hotel, while Giron waited in the car. Martinez-Ramos was then arrested in the hotel room and Giron was arrested outside the hotel.

Adriana Martinez-Ramos pled guilty to the same offense in August and is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge McBryde on November 22, 2006.

U.S. Attorney Roper praised the investigative efforts of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Fort Worth, Arlington, and Grand Prairie, Texas, Police Departments. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Alan Buie.

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