{"id":423303,"date":"2026-09-01T22:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423303\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T22:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:40:20","slug":"3-gang-members-sentenced-for-smuggling-meth-from-mexico-in-furniture-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423303\/","title":{"rendered":"3 gang members sentenced for smuggling meth from Mexico in furniture, vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Two additional Tango Corpitos gang members were sentenced to more than half a century in prison after distributing kilos of drugs smuggled from Mexico inside vehicles and cabinetry. <\/p>\n<p>Cesar Acosta was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison and Adam Ramirez was sentenced to 12 years.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\/in-your-neighborhood\/corpus-christi\/corpus-christi-man-sentenced-to-25-years-for-role-in-cross-border-meth-smuggling-conspiracy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tommie Lee Gutierrez<\/a> was previously sentenced to 25 years. He pleaded guilty Jan. 29.<\/p>\n<p>At the hearing on Aug. 26, the court heard additional evidence that Gutierrez is a member of the Tango Corpitos street gang and a three-time convicted felon.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the organization received meth in the Coastal Bend area in multi-kilogram quantities secreted in vehicles and loads of consumer goods such as cabinetry that had passed across the border into the United States from Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>On at least one occasion, Gutierrez wrecked a meth-laden vehicle on a public street in Corpus Christi before it had been completely unloaded, leaving kilograms of methamphetamine in the driver&#8217;s side door. The drugs were later discovered at the city impound lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Two additional Tango Corpitos gang members were sentenced to more than half a century&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[147256,147257,155,157,156,2615,3646,147261,147258,6877,147259,147260],"class_list":["post-423303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-adam-ray-ramirez","tag-cesar-daniel-acosta","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-corpus-christi-police-department","tag-fbi","tag-kilos-of-drugs-smuggled","tag-tango-corpitos-gang-members","tag-texas-department-of-public-safety","tag-texas-mexican-mafia-partners","tag-tommie-lee-gutierrez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}