4 years' prison for 3rd man in $1.4M Aurora marijuana bust
A 43-year-old Mexican man arrested in a 157-pound, $1.4 million marijuana bust last year was sentenced Friday to four years in prison after pleading guilty to a reduced charge.
Sergio N. Delgadillo-Alvarez, of Tecamac, Mexico, was one of four people arrested and charged with trafficking and possession of more than 5,000 grams of marijuana after a December 2015 arrest at the Premium Outlet Mall in Aurora.
Delgadillo-Alvarez pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of felony cannabis possession, which carried a punishment range of four to 15 years in prison. He had initially faced six to 30 years in prison without the chance of probation.
Kane County Judge D.J. Tegeler accepted the plea.
Delgadillo-Alvarez and three others were arrested Dec. 8, 2015, after police, who were in the area on a different case, saw Delgadillo-Alvarez, Rubin Guillen Hernandez and Jaime Guillen Hernandez loading garbage bags from a Mexican tour bus into a vehicle owned by Luis Garcia, according to court records.
Jaime Guillen Hernandez showed police a hidden compartment in the bus where the drugs were stored before they were delivered to Garcia, according to court records.
Delgadillo-Alvarez can have his sentence cut in half for good behavior and gets credit for 326 days served at the Kane County jail.
Garcia, 54, of Bolingbrook, pleaded guilty earlier this year and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Jaime Guillen Hernandez, 64, of Tialnepantla de Baz, Mexico, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year.
The final defendant, Ruben Guillen Hernandez, 56, of Col Alvaro Obrego, Mexico, is due in court on Dec. 1. He is being held at the Kane County jail on $2 million bail.