BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A Bakersfield man who is already serving a lengthy prison term for methamphetamine trafficking and kidnapping has been sentenced in a separate case to 24 years and six months for transporting 132 pounds of meth.
Jacob Paul Arjona, 32, pleaded guilty in November to conspiring to distribute and possession with intent to distribute meth, according to a news release sent Friday by the U.S. Attorney General’s Office for the Middle District of Florida.
Arjona recruited two men to pack meth in their luggage and fly from Los Angeles to Tampa, Fla., according to prosecutors. Arjona traveled separately.
The other men were arrested at Tampa International Airport by special agents with Homeland Security Investigations and their luggage seized.
Investigators tested the material used to package the drugs and found a fingerprint belonging to Arjona, according to the release.
Airline records connected Arjona to similar schemes — including an unrelated 2023 drug and kidnapping case in Florida, prosecutors said. Arjona pleaded guilty in that case and was sentenced last year to 17 years and seven months in prison.
His latest sentence will run concurrent with that one.
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