Investigations
Licenses of Two CDL Holders Revoked for Life
July 22, 2003
Summary
Two truck drivers, Alfredo Adan of Kissimmee, FL, and John A. Erazu of Orlando, FL, have lost their commercial driver licenses for life as part of a criminal conviction for drug smuggling. The defendants were convicted in U.S. District Court in Columbia, SC, for smuggling 550 pounds of marijuana out of Mexico into the U.S. by concealing it in a shipment of fruit in a tractor-trailer. The men were drivers for 24-7 Majesty, a commercial interstate carrier based in Tampa, FL. Each man was sentenced to a 78-month prison term. The case was a joint investigation of the U.S. Customs Service, OIG, and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.