United States v. Diaz

ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

NEIL M. GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.

A rather remarkable drug trafficking operation employed a series of commercial tractor trailers to move multi-ton quantities of marijuana from Mexico and the southwestern United States to the Chicago area from June 2002 through November 2003. Though authorities seized one truck after another, conspiracy members did not cotton on to the fact that the government had an informer in their midst. Jose Francisco Diaz, owner of “Stallion Transportation,” a shady truck leasing company, was associated with a number of the tractor trailers employed in…