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Ruben Martinez Martinez, of San Antonio, was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison for smuggling more than 10 kgs of fentanyl and nearly 35 kgs of methamphetamine into the United States from Mexico

Federal prosecutors in the Western District of Texas filed 352 new immigration and immigration-related criminal cases from April 25 through May 1. 

Zaid Mashhour Haddad was arrested Tuesday in San Antonio on criminal charges related to his alleged possession of child pornography

Gisselle Cabrera Rodriguez, of San Antonio, was sentenced in federal court to 50 months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kgs or more of cocaine

Mario Alonso Torrijos-Perez, of Mexico, was sentenced in a federal court in Del Rio to 45 months in prison for assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent

Von Ormy tax preparer Sandy Gonzalez was sentenced to two years in federal prison for aiding or assisting the filing of a false tax return

Leonardo Estrada, of Del Rio, was sentenced to 288 months in federal prison for one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine

Guillermo Hernandez-Gonzalez, of Mexico, who resided illegally in California, was sentenced in Del Rio to 66 months in federal prison for conspiracy to transport illegal aliens placing lives in jeopardy.

Edward Dean La Puma, the founder and sole proprietor of 77 Stone in El Paso, was sentenced to federal prison 

Federal prosecutors in the Western District of Texas filed 378 new immigration and immigration-related criminal cases from April 11 through April 17. 

A federal jury in Del Rio convicted Bryant Anthony Garcia of Luling for one count of conspiracy to transport illegal aliens and one count of illegal alien transportation for profit. Three co-defendants also await their sentence hearings.