United States v. Araiza

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

RICHARD G. KOPF, District Judge.

I now expand upon my oral ruling last Friday granting the defendant’s motion for departure (filing 70) which I also construed as a variance motion. I sentenced the defendant, a drug “mule,” to time-served plus five years of supervised release, including a home confinement component, because one of her four children is very sick, the child needs her help around the clock and there is no readily available substitute.

I. BACKGROUND

Edna Edith Araiza is now 28. (PSR at p. 2.) On June 7, 2006, she was driving a pickup containing 29 packages of…