‘WRECKING BALL’ OPERATION LANDS MAN IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR COCAINE, HEROIN CONSPIRACY GALVESTON — A 56-year-old legal permanent resident from Mexico has been sentenced in a cocaine and heroin conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.A federal jury convicted Juan Gonzalez-Cardebas following an 11-day trial in August 2022. He was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine and one or more kilograms of heroin as well as possession with intent to distribute 18 kilograms of cocaine.U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown has now ordered him to serve a total of 120 months in ...