El Dorado County drug case results in 2 indictments
A federal grand jury returned an indictment Friday against Sacramento residents Benjamin Macias, 37, and Sergio Ambriz, 26, charging them with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, distributing cocaine, and distributing methamphetamine in El Dorado and Sacramento counties.
Macias is also charged with possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and being a felon in possession of firearm.
According to court documents, in 2014 and 2015, Macias supplied Ambriz with cocaine and Ambriz sold the cocaine to an undercover agent in the two counties. Ambriz also sold allegedy the undercover agent methamphetamine. When Macias was arrested, a Ruger 9mm pistol was found in his vehicle.
If convicted, Macias faces a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison and a $5 million fine. Ambriz faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and an $8 million fine.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
Imagine that…a Felon in possession of a firearm that he is not supposed to be in possession of. Yeah, the whole gun control thing is really working.
California needs better, more comprehensive background checks to buy firearms.
Somehow these felons are able to get guns.
Maybe the state could exercise is 10th Amendment rights and prohibit guns altogether like they do with coccaine and other hard drugs.
Banning things is always a great success. The major success of the drug war has led the way. Just write another, more stricter law and people will not violate it.
Ahhh sarcasm huh Mountaindude. It is more than likely these guys bought them on the black market.
Do you anti gun people really believe criminals go up to their local gun store to get there guns!!?? Yup, felons are lining up to hand over their id and mental heath status to a licensed gun dealer to share with DOJ. Oh ya, and their hard earned cash too. The laws are to supress law abiding citizens so Obama and his minions arent outnumbered. People were given the right to bear arms from criminals and corupt government. Criminals get their guns from the houses they rob and from their buddies. Lets hope these guys dont get out early with the hopes of completing a rehab program.
Gun violence is ruining our country. The NRA just sits back and laughs. I wish each and every NRA executive many years of horrible nightmares filled with gun violence. They deserve nothing less…
Yeah nature, it’s the NRA’s fault that criminals are criminals and they get guns. How’s that pipe dream of banning all guns from honest citizens working? Some of you liberals just don’t get the obvious. Ps: I think your president has done a fine job of ruining this country. No need for guns to do that.
Here is an interesting stat to put the whole gun worshiper argument that guns are tools for self defense into perspective. “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun,” Wayne LaPierre says. Yeah, right!:
In the US in 2012 for every time a gun was used in a self defense/justifiable homicide there were 34 criminal homicides, 78 gun suicides, and 2 accidental gun deaths.
Which ‘librul’ ever advocated for banning all guns?
‘The laws are to suppress law abiding citizens so Obama and his minions arent outnumbered’
Where do the low info-low intellect dupes get their asinine opinions?
Must be from that evil librul media
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Gun laws don’t affect the criminal who doesn’t obey laws. When will liberals ever get serious about crime and demand serious life sentences for felons with guns? If they keep being soft on crime and letting all the criminals out their chances of being a crime victim along with everyone else will rise.