Vallejo duo get prison time for assaulting officer, robbery
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A pair of Vallejo residents were sentenced to prison on Monday for robbing an undercover federal agent during a drug bust several years ago.
Rafael Ruiz, 34, and 35-year-old Edgar Torres were arrested in September 2018 after a drug deal went south.
According to prosecutors, Ruiz sold crystal meth to an undercover federal agent three times between June 2018 and July 2018. The pair conspired to sell drugs to the undercover agent a few months later, only to rob the agent at gunpoint.
The pair “pointed [a] firearm at the agent and threatened to kill him,” according to a press statement issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento on Monday.
A search warrant on Ruiz’s home later turned up a cache of methamphetamine pills, a Halloween mask, a knife and the firearm used in the robbery, prosecutors said.
Ruiz was convicted on drug distribution charges, for assaulting a federal officer and for conspiracy to commit robbery. Torres was convicted on a robbery conspiracy charge, for assaulting a federal officer and for brandishing a gun during the crime.
Ruiz and Torres received prison sentences of 13 and 10 years respectively, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
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