LINCOLN, Neb. (Lincoln Journal Star) — A California man whose attorney said his client was forced into hauling methamphetamine has been imprisoned in Nebraska.
Jose Vazquez Rios was given 18 to 20 years at a hearing Thursday in in Lincoln. He'd pleaded guilty.
A deputy stopped Vazquez Rios in July for driving too close to another vehicle on Interstate 80.
The deputy later found 22½ pounds of meth in a hidden compartment.
The Lincoln Journal Star reports that his defense attorney says Vazquez Rios was forced by members of a cartel into hauling the meth because his brother got stopped with a load of drugs by law enforcement.