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U.S. v. GOMEZ-RUIZ

No. 89-1573.

931 F.2d 977 (1991)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Henry Alberto GOMEZ-RUIZ, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 2, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Luis A. Medina Torres, Hato Rey, P.R., for defendant, appellant.

Warren Vazquez, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Daniel F. Lopez Romo, U.S. Atty., was on brief, Hato Rey, P.R., for appellee.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and SELYA, Circuit Judges.

BREYER, Chief Judge.

Customs agents found seven kilograms of cocaine in a suitcase on board an airplane that landed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on its way from Bogota, Colombia, to Madrid, Spain. A jury subsequently convicted Henry Alberto Gomez-Ruiz, the apparent owner, of three separate crimes: 1) unlawfully importing cocaine into the United States; 2) unlawfully possessing cocaine with intent to distribute; and 3) possessing, on board an aircraft arriving in the...

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