A Sonoran woman was sentenced this week to three years in prison for smuggling oxycodone from a Mexican pharmacy to a customer in the United States.Β
Ma de Lourdes Casas Franco, a 45-year-old from Nogales, Sonora, arranged for oxycodone pills to be delivered from a pharmacy in Mexico to a customer in the United States, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a news release Thursday.Β
She arranged numerous shipments from June 2010 to July 2011, the U.S. Attorney's Office said, and the value of at least one shipment was over $10,000. Part of the purchase price was deposited in her U.S. bank account and part was deposited in someone else's bank account.Β
She was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan in Phoenix. Casas Franco pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance and money laundering conspiracy.
