BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A Bakersfield man who previously pleaded no contest to a charge of solicitation of murder, was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for drug conspiracy, officials said in a release.
Jose Luis Zambrano, 40, was sentenced to 12 years and seven months to prison on federal charges of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office in Fresno said.
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Zambrano pleaded guilty in March.
Prosecutors said Zambrano sold a pound of methamphetamine and nearly 12 ounces of heroin over a three-month period beginning in October 2016. Wiretaps indicated Zambrano was the supplier of drugs to Manuel Teodoro Aros, 49, of Santa Maria, and was the intended recipient of heroin from a supplier in Mexico.
Aros was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for his involvement in the drug conspiracy.
Zambrano pleaded no contest in 2022 to a charge of solicitation to commit murder in connection to a deadly 2017 shooting outside a Family Dollar store on Union Avenue in Bakersfield.