This week, Ma de Lourdes Casas-Franco, 45, of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, was sentenced to 36 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan for sending oxycodone to the U.S.
Casas-Franco had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance and money laundering conspiracy.
According to the plea agreement, Casas-Franco worked at a Mexican pharmacy, Sonora’s Desert Pharmacy, from June 2010 through July 2011. On numerous occasions, Casas-Franco arranged to have oxycodone pills, a Schedule II controlled substance, delivered from the pharmacy in Mexico to a customer in the United States. She also arranged to have the part of the purchase price deposited into a bank account in her name maintained in a bank in the United States and part of the purchase price to be deposited into another’s bank account. On at least one occasion, the total value of the order was in excess of $10,000.