Legal Opinion
United States v. Luis Humberto Barbosa
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided November 6, 2001No. 00-1205PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FUENTES, Circuit Judge.
In July 1998, the Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”) arrested defendant Luis Humberto Barbosa for importing into this country 882 grams of cellophane-wrapped pellets of heroin, which he had swallowed while in Aruba and subsequently expelled in a hotel room in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following the arrest, Barbosa was charged in a complaint with possession with intent to distribute heroin. Upon further investigation, the DEA laboratory determined that the pellets Barbosa had swallowed contained cocaine base with a purity of 85%, not heroin.
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