SO. ILL. - Cesar David Grangel, 49, a citizen of Mexico and undocumented resident of California, has been sentenced in federal court for a drug conspiracy and a firearm trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced this week.
According to court documents, from February 2015 to November 2016, Grangel served as a manager/supervisor of a drug conspiracy that operated in the Southern District of Illinois, the Central District of California, the District of Idaho, the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and the District of North Carolina. During the course of the conspiracy, law enforcement arrested an individual in the Southern District of Illinois who was transporting a load of firearms and ammunition on a return trip from Wisconsin to California. The firearms and ammunition were discovered in a sophisticated, non-factory compartment within the vehicle and were supposed to have been delivered to Grangel, an illegal alien, at Grangel’s direction. Grangel then intended to transfer the firearms to another person so they could be smuggled into Mexico.
There is no parole in the federal system. The term of supervised release, which follows service of imprisonment, will be non-reporting based upon Grangel’s anticipated removal from the United States.