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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A cause trafficker from Hanford who was arrested successful Operation Red Reaper successful March 2019 was sentenced, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.
Ryan Gines, 44, of Hanford, was sentenced to 15 years and six months successful situation for trafficking methamphetamine.
According to tribunal documents, successful March 2019, assorted federal, authorities and section instrumentality enforcement agencies partnered successful Operation Red Reaper, an probe into the Nuestra Familia situation pack and the Norteño thoroughfare pack successful Kings County.
The DOJ said the probe uncovered that the Nuestra Familia was liable for large-scale trafficking of methamphetamine and different controlled substances. They besides had assorted firearms offenses and different convulsive crimes. The operation, according to the DOJ, resulted successful national charges brought against 21 cause traffickers, including Gines.
In May of 2019, the DOJ said recorded interceptions connected wiretap revealed that Gines was conspiring with others to get and merchantability much than 5 pounds of methamphetamine. With the assistance of the wiretap, a Kings County Sheriff's lawman stopped the car transporting the drugs. The DOJ said the lawman searched the car and recovered the drugs.
