Texas truck driver sentenced for ‘large-scale cocaine conspiracy’

A Texas truck driver was sentenced in a Massachusetts court this week for participating in a “nationwide large-scale cocaine trafficking conspiracy.”

On July 8, Javier Robledo Perez, 39, was sentenced to 49 1/2 months in prison (time served) to be followed by two years of supervised release.

Perez pleaded guilty earlier this year to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and possession with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. 

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts detailed the allegations against Perez:

“Perez was a commercial truck driver based out of Dallas who transported approximately 30 kilograms of cocaine across state lines on behalf of a drug trafficking organization based in Mexico and Texas. In May 2020, Perez and his co-conspirators arranged for the delivery of 30 kilograms of cocaine to a cooperating witness in Massachusetts. In May 2020, Perez was stopped by law enforcement as he traveled into Massachusetts in his commercial semi-truck, from which 30 vacuum sealed bricks, containing approximately 30 kilograms of cocaine, were seized.“

The case was investigated as part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) operation.