U.S. v. MADERA-RIVERA

No. 17-1319.

898 F.3d 110 (2018)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Elving MADERA-RIVERA, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

August 2, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rafael F. Castro Lang , San Juan, PR, on brief for appellant.

Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez , United States Attorney, Mariana E. Bauzá-Almonte , Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Appellate Division, and Julia M. Meconiates , Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.

Before Howard, Chief Judge, Boudin and Kayatta, Circuit Judges.


Elving Madera-Rivera ("Madera") was the architect of a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, using the mails and commercial airlines to send kilogram quantities of the drug via Puerto Rico into the continental United States. Madera recruited and paid the couriers, using contacts in the continental United States to make arrangements...

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