Drug dealer whose sentence was reduced by Obama is jailed again

A drug dealer whose sentence was reduced by former President in 2015 has been jailed again after he was found with a backpack full of pills.

Life-long drug trafficker Joseph Burgos, 74, received a new 62-month prison sentence on Tuesday for transporting thousands of opioid pills in 2019.

In July 2015, Obama granted commutations to Burgos and 45 other individuals. At the time, Burgos was set to spend 360 months in prison for the distribution of cocaine and the use of a communication facility in the commission of a felony.

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