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UNITED STATES v. ARIAS

No. 24829.

453 F.2d 641 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Miguel Angel ARIAS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

January 12, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Hay (argued), Long Beach, Cal., for defendant-appellant.

R. Michael Bruney, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), Harry D. Steward, U.S. Atty., Robert H. Filsinger, Asst. U.S. Atty. & Chief, Crim. Div., San Diego, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before KILKENNY and CHOY, Circuit Judges, and BYRNE, District Judge.

WILLIAM M. BYRNE, District Judge:

On July 6, 1968, customs officials at the San Ysidro, California, Port of Entry, found sixty pounds of marihuana in a 1957 Buick driven across the border by Luz Villagran. Claiming, in effect, to be only a "mule", Villagran related to authorities that Miguel Arias, who had assertedly promised to pay her one hundred dollars to drive the load car, had arranged to pick up the contraband at her home in Los Angeles upon his return from...

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