The last time Texas Highway Patrol troopers checked, for expedition transmission didn’t come with a white powder.  Texas State troopers found 11 kilos of cocaine after pulling over a 1998 expedition near pearsall in a traffic stop Wednesday on Interstate 35.  After the driver consented to a search, an officer saw that the vehicles transmission had been modified and patched with putty. 

Taking it apart, troopers said they found the drug stash inside the transmission and arrested Rafael Oviedo Caro of San Antonio on a charge of possessing cocaine with intent to distribute.  Oviedo was in federal court on Thursday and U.S. Magistrate Judge John Primomo ordered him held with out bail ending a bail hearing Tuesday.

La última vez que soldados de la patrulla de carreteras de Texas marcadas, para la expedición de transmisión no vienen con un polvo blanco. Troopers del Estado de Texas encontraron 11 kilos de cocaína después de tirar sobre una expedición de 1998 cerca de Brown en una parada de tráfico el miércoles en la Interestatal 35. Después de que el controlador consentido en una búsqueda, un oficial vio que la transmisión de vehículos había sido modificada y parcheada con putty

Tomando troopers aparte, dijo que encontró el complementario de drogas dentro de la transmisión y detuvieron Rafael Oviedo Caro de San Antonio bajo la acusación de poseer cocaína con intención de distribuir. Oviedo fue en la corte federal el jueves y le aguantó con fianza terminando un gancho de escuchar el martes ordenó magistrado juez de Estados Unidos John Primomo

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A Laredo lawyer who pleaded guilty earlier this month to a racketeering charge was sold out by a Houston-based drug trafficker with connections in Mexico and across the U.S., according to court documents.

Alonzo Ramos, a 40-year-old attorney from a politically connected Laredo family, pleaded guilty in a Dallas federal court to one count of interstate travel in aid of racketeering.

According to his plea agreement, Ramos acted as an intermediary between the Houston trafficker, who was facing charges in Louisiana, and other traffickers who wanted him to keep quiet.

Ramos gave the trafficker $48,500 in drug proceeds not to snitch, according to the plea agreement.

But the trafficker, Lizandro Tijerina, was already cooperating with authorities.

Tijerina testified in a 2008 trial in Louisiana that in the early 2000s he moved hundreds of pounds of cocaine a month to cities like Chicago, Atlanta and New Orleans and to states as far north as New York and New Jersey.  Tijerina testified that he purchased the cocaine from the Gulf Cartel in Mexico.

Tijerina allowed federal agents to record his conversations with Ramos, according to court records.

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