McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — A federal judge in Laredo, Texas, has sentenced a Mexican woman to serve 10 years in federal prison for importing cocaine across the border with her teen daughter in the vehicle.
Carmen Julia Carreon Segovia, 49, was sentenced for conspiring to import over 6 kilograms of cocaine from Mexico last January in a vehicle she drove with her 16-year-old daughter as a passenger, U.S. Attorney Alamdar Hamdani announced Monday.
Authorities say Carreon drove an SUV from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, to the Juarez-Lincoln International Bridge in Laredo. During an inspection, US. Customs and Border Protection officials found eight bundles containing 6.3 kilograms of cocaine hidden in the vehicle’s front fender.
“Even more insidious than smuggling a dangerous and highly addictive drug into the United States is bringing along your own minor child, exposing her needlessly to a dangerous underworld,” Hamdani said. “Segovia will now have 10 years in a prison cell to contemplate the consequences of her actions, actions that affect and endangered her teenage daughter.”
The drugs have a street value of $90,000.
She will serve time in a U.S. federal prison and then face deportation after she completes her sentence.
Sandra Sanchez can be reached at SSanchez@BorderReport.com.
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