A Shoreline resident was sentenced Dec. 14 to ten years in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin.
Prosecutors describe Wilver Soto Mira-Flores, 27, as a trusted member of a large drug distribution conspiracy who was also known as Macrino Acevedo-Cuevas. Mira-Flores forfeited $1.2 million to the government that was seized during the investigation. At sentencing, U.S. district judge Ricardo Martinez noted that Mira-Flores would likely be deported following his prison term.
Mira-Flores trafficked in large amounts of drugs. At the time of his arrest on April 9, agents found 16 kilos of cocaine and 10 kilos of heroin in his residence. On numerous occasions Mira-Flores sold drugs to confidential informants working for the Snohomish Regional Drug Task Force (SRDTF) and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
As part of the probe, investigators used court authorized wire taps of the lead defendant’s telephone. The organization was bringing heroin and cocaine up from Mexico and distributing it in King and Snohomish counties. Mira-Flores’ role was to personally deliver narcotics at the direction of the lead defendant, Javier Sanchez-Vasquez. Javier Sanchez-Vasquez is scheduled for trial January 22, 2008.
Other members of the drug conspiracy have already been sentenced. Rodolfo Navarro-Gomez was sentenced October 26, to five years in prison. Carlos Velasquez was sentenced November 16, to five years in prison. Lennon Vasquez-Soto and Dion Brady Lykins have pleaded guilty and will be sentenced at a future date.
The case was investigated by the SRDTF and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
This was an Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation, providing supplemental federal funding to the federal and state agencies involved. The case is being prosecuted by special sssistant United States attorney Adam Cornell. Cornell is a Snohomish County Deputy Prosecutor specially designated to handle drug prosecutions in federal court.
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