Second California Resident Sentenced To Prison For Helping To Transport Heroin Across The Country

SCRANTON--The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 39-year-old California resident was sentenced to 41 months in prison today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy in Scranton, for possessing with intent to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin.

According to United States Attorney Peter Smith, the defendant, Livier Cantor-Huizar, of Fresno, California, admitted to transporting heroin from California to the Mt. Pocono area of Monroe County in July 2014.

Cantor-Huizar was indicted by a federal grand jury in July 2014, as a result of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Pennsylvania State Police.

Judge Conaboy ordered Cantor-Huizar to serve two years on supervised release following her prison sentence.

Last week, Judge Conaboy sentenced co-defendant Jose Rosario Huizar-Rios to 46 months in prison. Two other defendants have entered guilty pleas in the case and are awaiting sentencing.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Francis P. Sempa.      

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