(WSIL) -- The leader of a Houston-based cocaine trafficking operation has been sentenced in Illinois to federal prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine.聽
On Tuesday, Samuel Ruben Caraway, 46, was sentenced for his role in a trafficking conspiracy that resulted in the seizure of $1.2 million dollars in cash, $72,000 in jewelry and several kilos of cocaine.聽
Caraway was captured in Texas in July 2021, after being a fugitive for more than three and a half years.
An indictment filed on January 4, 2018, charged that Caraway was the leader of a Houston-based group responsible for distributing more than $4 million dollars鈥� worth of cocaine throughout Texas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Georgia.
All the other defendants previously pleaded guilty, and Caraway was the last member of the group to be sentenced.
