DALLAS (1080 KRLD) - Two men from Texas will spend five years in federal prison for transporting a massive amount of an illegal drug through Louisiana.
Court records show 24-year-old Brandon Montoya of Kaufman and 22-year-old Felipe Rodriguez of McAllen plead guilty to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.
Prosecutors say the two men were approached in Mexico about a job and agreed to go to California to pick up the illegal drugs and drive them to Atlanta, Georgia.
The two were pulled over by a Louisiana State Trooper on I-20 and a search of their vehicle turned up ten 1-kilogram packets of fentanyl. That drug is a synthetic opiod that is significantly more powerful than morphine.
"This case alone involved enough fentanyl to kill every person in the state of Louisiana," said U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph in Western District of Louisiana. "The seizure of these drugs and the prosecution of these defendants is part of the Department of Justice's ongoing fight against fentanyl and other deadly opioids."
