Houston man sentenced in La. cocaine case
BATON ROUGE, LA
Chief U.S. District Judge Ralph E. Tyson also ordered
33-year-old Jose Ricardo Ramirez to forfeit $159,400 seized from a
minivan he was driving to Houston in August 2007 after delivering
15 pounds of cocaine to Baton Rouge.
Ramirez signed the plea agreement Thursday with Assistant U.S.
Attorney Jennifer M. Kleinpeter.
Ramirez also forfeited over $85,000 seized from a Houston home
in December 2008.
Tyson said federal agents' discovery of submachine guns, assault
rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition at that home factored
into Ramirez' lengthy prison term.
