{"id":460709,"date":"2026-09-11T16:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460709\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:58:10","slug":"man-sentenced-40-years-for-drug-trafficking-conspiracy-linked-to-double-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460709\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Sentenced 40 Years For Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Linked To Double Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soon after that traffic stop, federal agents spoke with Murillo and Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Madrigal-Birrueta later spoke with Murillo and Hernandez, who said &#8220;They wanted to quit the drug business and cooperate with the investigation,&#8221; angering Madrigal-Birrueta.<\/p>\n<p>The victims&#8217; bodies were not found until more than a year after the killings, buried in unmarked graves near the Yakima ranch.<\/p>\n<p>Also charged in the case was Ricardo Orizaba-Zendejas, whom prosecutors say worked as Madrigal-Birrueta&#8217;s &#8220;trusted lieutenant,&#8221; drug dealer and debt collector.<\/p>\n<p>Orizaba-Zendejas was convicted by a federal jury of drug and firearm offenses connected to the drug trafficking organization and was sentenced earlier this year to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soon after that traffic stop, federal agents spoke with Murillo and Hernandez. Prosecutors said Madrigal-Birrueta later spoke with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-460709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}