{"id":76108,"date":"2025-12-04T18:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/76108\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:16:20","slug":"mexican-national-living-in-garland-sentenced-in-drug-trafficking-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/76108\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican national living in Garland sentenced in drug trafficking case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-457306354.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Photo credit: RICHARD BOUHET\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">GARLAND, Texas &#8211; A Mexican national who had been living in Garland was sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking in North Texas.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">According to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of Texas, 28-year-old Salud Alejandro Ruiz Mendoza pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">He was sentenced on Monday to 12 and a half years in federal prison.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Federal prosecutors said Mendoza and his co-defendants imported methamphetamine from Mexico and had distributed or planned to distribute about 37 kilograms of the drug in the North Texas area.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Investigators also seized 91 pounds of marijuana and several firearms following Mendoza\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The case was part of Operation Take Back America, the federal government\u2019s crackdown on illegal immigration and the elimination of drug cartels.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">No mugshot for Mendoza was released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from a news release from the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/garland\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garland<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/immigration\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Photo credit: RICHARD BOUHET\/AFP via Getty Images GARLAND, Texas &#8211; A Mexican national who had been living&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1046,581,1282,1724,223,160,162,161,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-76108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-dallas-county","10":"tag-garland","11":"tag-immigration","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-plano","14":"tag-plano-headlines","15":"tag-plano-news","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76108","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=76108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}