A high-level drug trafficker extradited from Mexico is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to trafficking more than 170 pounds of cocaine into Cobb and Fulton counties.
Orfael Macedo-Bustos oversaw tractor-trailer shipments of cocaine from Mexico to metro Atlanta, where the drugs were stored in stash houses before being distributed throughout the area.
According to DEA Atlanta Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael Connolly, investigators seized five shipments of cocaine connected to the operation…