{"id":7091,"date":"2011-06-27T21:45:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T04:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=7091"},"modified":"2011-06-27T21:45:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T04:45:23","slug":"news-brief-heroin-supplier-given-10-year-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=7091","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Heroin supplier given 10-year-sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office announced today the leader of a drug trafficking ring they said operated like a <a title=\"&quot;News brief: Sixty-five pounds of heroin &quot;off the menu&quot; after sweep&quot; from Thursday June 10, 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.thenewstribune.com\/crime\/2011\/06\/27\/spanaway-man-sentenced-to-10-years-for-heroin-distribution\/\" target=\"_blank\">pizza delivery business<\/a>, using runners and dispatchers and catering to customers from Pierce, Thurston, Lewis, Kitsap, and Grays Harbor counties, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, the Spanaway man was among 23 people arrested in a coordinated law enforcement effort targeting Mexican cartels distributing large amounts of heroin and methamphetamine in the region, according to the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>In asking for the lengthy prison term, prosecutors noted Jose Manuel Campos Pinedo, 34, dealt in black tar heroin, one of the drugs which has fueled cartel violence, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. State Department, there have been 22,700 narcotics related murders in Mexico since 2006, as Mexican cartels battle to decide who will control the supply of drugs, such as black tar heroin, into the United States, the news release from the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office stated.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about it in The (Tacoma) News Tribune,<a title=\"&quot;Spanaway man sentenced to 10 years for heroin distribution&quot; from The (Tacoma) News Tribune on Monday June 27, 1011 at 3:54 p.m.\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.thenewstribune.com\/crime\/2011\/06\/27\/spanaway-man-sentenced-to-10-years-for-heroin-distribution\/\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office announced today the leader of a drug trafficking ring they said operated like a pizza delivery business, using runners and dispatchers and catering to customers from Pierce, Thurston, Lewis, Kitsap, and Grays Harbor counties, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-7091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7094,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091\/revisions\/7094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}