News Releases
DALTON METH DEALER SENTENCED
August 12, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
David E. Nahmias, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia; Kenneth A. Smith, Special-Agent-in-Charge, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); Sherri Strange, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration; and James Chadwick, Chief, Dalton, Georgia Police Department, announce that JORGE TAFOLLA BUENROSTRO, 52, of Plainville, Georgia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Harold L. Murphy, on charges of Possession of Firearms by a Convicted Felon and Distribution of Methamphetamine. According to Nahmias and the documents and information presented in court:
BUENROSTRO was sentenced to 10 years in prison to be followed by 8 years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
BUENROSTRO was convicted of these charges on May 24, 2005, after a two-day trial before a federal jury in Rome, Georgia. Federal and state law enforcement agents testified that they observed BUENROSTRO deliver a pound of methamphetamine to an informant during a controlled purchase in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Calhoun, Georgia, on March 30, 2004, and that when the agents and officers searched BUENROSTRO’s home during his arrest on April 6, 2004, BUENROSTRO had two firearms in his possession. BUENROSTRO, a native of Mexico who also was illegally in the United States, had been previously convicted of a felony drug offense in the state of Texas in 2000.
This case was investigated by Special Agents of the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and officers of the Dalton Police Department.
Assistant United States Attorney Todd C. Alley prosecuted the case.
For further information please contact David E. Nahmias (pronounced NAH-me-us), United States Attorney or Sheila Arnum, Chief, Firearms and Local Impact Offenses, through Patrick Crosby, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Attorney's Office, at (404) 581-6016. The Internet address for the HomePage for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia is www.usdoj.gov/usao/gan.