PIERRE (AP) - The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the life sentence of an interstate drug trafficker convicted by a federal court jury in Sioux Falls.
Luciano Camberos-Villapuda was arrested in Denver in May 2013 and later convicted of drug conspiracy. U.S. Attorney Randolph Seiler says Camberos-Villapuda was "responsible for polluting our South Dakota communities with methamphetamine."
Camberos-Villapuda was given a mandatory life sentence because of previous felony drug convictions.
Seiler says the appeals court recently rejected Camberos-Villapuda's arguments that certain evidence should have been suppressed at his trial, and that his sentence violated his constitutional rights.
