SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A man who called himself the “King of Coke” and brought cartel hitmen into San Diego was sentenced Monday to 17 years and six months in federal prison.
Rodolfo “Rudy” Benjamin Silva, 44, was a long-time drug distributor based in San Diego, according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California.
Silva even facilitated bringing in Mexican assassins known as “sicarios” into the San Diego area, authorities said.
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“On one occasion, Silva hired a sicario from Mexico to come to San Diego where that individual attempted to fatally shoot one of Silva’s rivals,” the statement said…