D.A. Orlando Criticizes Soft Drug Dealing Sentence

Amy Orlando

Las Cruces Sun-News - Dona Ana County District Attorney Amy Orlando says she is "gravely concerned" after Judge Fernando Macias gave probation to two men who sold cocaine to undercover police officers on multiple occassions.
The Las Cruces Sun-News reports that Orlando criticized the sentences handed down last week as too lenient.

Prosecutors in the D.A.'s office had pressed for prison time for 23-year-old Manuel Sanchez and 28-year-old Adolfo Corrales. But Judge Fernando Macias sentenced them to five years' probation and granted deferred sentences. The deferral means the cases will be dismissed if Sanchez and Corrales successfully complete probation. Each man pleaded no contest to three counts of trafficking in 2010. Orlando says she will keep pushing for prison time for criminals who put the community in danger.

D.A. Orlando Criticizes Soft Drug Dealing Sentence