SHREVEPORT, La. Three men charged with drug trafficking and firearms charges in three separate cases have been sentenced to time in federal prison, acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook said Wednesday in a news release.
Henry Cota, Jr., 38, of Ontario, California, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. to spend 11 years, 3 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release. Cota was charged in a superseding indictment in January 2020 and pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine on March 17.
The charges stemmed from an investigation into shipments of methamphetamine that were sent in March, April and July 2019 to individuals in the Shreveport area. Agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service learned that Cota, along with another co-defendant, were shipping the packages from post offices in the California area to Shreveport for distribution
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