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Galindo Guilty Of Drug Trafficking 1.2 Kilos Of Marijuana
posted (April 13, 2012)
39-year-old David Galindo, a Santa Elena resident who was busted on November 9, of last year, with 1.2 KILOS of marijuana was found guilty of drug trafficking today. He was fined $10,000 dollars instead of being sent to jail.

According to the 2 arresting officers from the GSU, at 2:45 that day, they stopped a BBOC bus at the mile 4 Check point on the Western Highway.

They searched all the passengers and found a schoolbag with the cannabis parceled in 3 bricks. They found Galindo's social security card in one of the pockets, and as a result, they arrested and charged him.

In his defense, Galindo testified that when the officers asked him if the bag was his, he said no, but the officers didn't believe him.

He said that they took him into the police booth, stripped him down to his underclothes, and beat him while they searched another bag that belonged to him. He also said that during that time, one of the officers forced him to look away from his bag, and they allegedly slipped his social security card into the bag.

Chief Justice Anne Marie Smith didn't believe him and because of the evidence presented against him, she found him guilty.

Because he didn't have any previous convictions for this offense, she sentenced him to pay a fine of $10,000, but he had to pay half of it upfront today. She has given him until November 30, to pay the next half, or he will spend 2 years in jail.

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