A Franklin County man was sentenced yesterday to 17 and a half years in federal prison for selling drugs and guns to undercover officers.
39-year-old Heriberto Armendariz Garcia of Wellsville had pleased guilty in federal court to one county of conspiracy to distribute more than five kilos of cocaine. He admitted he met multiple times with undercover officers, selling them cocaine, methamphetamine and firearms. During the course of the investigation he sold or arranged for the sale of nine kilograms of cocaine, 4.8 kilograms of methamphetamine, 16 firearms and 232 rounds of ammunition.
During one meeting with undercover officers, Armendariz Garcia told them someone had stolen four kilograms of cocaine from him and when “the people down south,” found out he might lose his house.
