Corinna Concepcion Sentenced To Prison In Ice Trafficking Case

     ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant CORINNA CONCEPCION, who was convicted at the trial of  U.S. v. Francisco Arias, Eder Cortez-Zelaya and Corinna Concepcion in the District Court of Guam, was sentenced today.

     CORINNA CONCEPCION,  age 44, from Agat, was sentenced by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood, to 169 months imprisomnent for conspiracy to distribute methamphetan1ine (ice) and 169 months imprisonment for money laundering.  Both sentences are to be served concurrently.

     CORINNA CONCEPCION organized her husband Lawrence Concepcion, her son-in­ law A.J. Santos, her nephew-in-law, Joshua Moye, and her friend Florentina Depamaylo to receive packages containing methamphetamine.  The packages were sent from Las Vegas, Nevada to Guam by her co-defendants  Francisco Arias and Eder Cortez-Zelaya.   All of her co­ defendants except for Arias and Cortez-Zelaya have been sentenced.  Aria and Cortez-Zelaya will be sentenced on November 2, 2015 in the U.S. District Court of Guam.

     U.S. Attorney Limtiaco stated, "Our community is not immune from the poison of methamphetamine.  This case illustrates the hard work our partners in law enforcement do every day to stop the distribution of methamphetamine into Guam.  This conviction resulted from the concerted efforts of law enforcement pa1tners in the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation, a focused multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional  task force investigating and prosecuting the most significant drug trafficking organizations throughout the United States by leveraging the combined expertise of federal , state and local law enforcement agencies."

     This OCDETF investigation involved federal agents and local law enforcement officers of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Guam Police Department (GPD), Guam Customs and Quarantine Agency (GCQA), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF), U .S. National Oceanic Atmosphere Administration (NOAA), and U.S. Coast Guard Criminal Investigative Service (CGIS).