United States v. Cueto

AMENDED DECISION AND ORDER DENYING PETITIONER’S 28 U.S.C. § 2255 MOTION TO VACATE, SET ASIDE OR CORRECT SENTENCE

HAUK, Senior District Judge.

This Amended Decision and Order supplants and is a substitution for this Court’s initial Decision and Order signed on August 23, 1996, and entered by the Clerk of the Court on August 30,1996.

BACKGROUND

In May of 1991, the U.S. Customs Service intercepted a shipment of methamphetamine being smuggled into the United States from the Philippines. A successful sting operation led to the arrest of Petitioner Nilo Medina Cueto, a 40 year old male with no prior…