UNITED STATES v. ARIAS-DIAZ

No. 73-2463.

497 F.2d 165 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Armando ARIAS-DIAZ, Delfin Hondares-Alfaro, Octavio Pino-Villa, Pedro Alvaro Zarzabal-Naranjo, Mario Orlando Curbelo-Talvara and Jose Quinones-Pita, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 18, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyce S. Smith, Chicago, Ill., for Curbelo-Talvara and Pino-Villa.

George B. Weires, Miami, Fla., for other defendants-appellants.

John L. Briggs, U. S. Atty., Robert S. Yerkes, Asst. U. S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM and GOLDBERG, Circuit Judges, and LYNNE, District Judge.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

About 5 a. m., January 10, 1973, United States customs agents stopped four cars traveling together near the Leesburg Airport, Florida. The agents arrested six persons caught redhanded with a total of 1947 pounds of marijuana. The defendants-appellants, Arias, Hondares, Pino, Zarzabal, Curbelo, and Quinones,1 were indicted, each on three charges of violating the marijuana laws: conspiring to import and distribute...

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