ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) -
Three people who planned to use a Gainesville warehouse to unload their vegetables and marijuana were sentenced on Thursday.
Marco Ortiz-Barajas, 19, Angel Zamudio-Martinez, 54, and Jose Luis Chavez-Morfin, 43, were convicted upon a charge of conspiracy to possess marijuana with the intent to distribute.
The men pleaded guilty on June 29, 2012.
According to United States attorney Sally Quillian Yates, during the course of an undercover investigation, Homeland Security Investigations learned that Ortiz-Barajas, Zamudio-Martinez and Chavez-Morfin were planning to unload a shipment of marijuana at a Gainesville warehouse.
When the tractor-trailer arrived at the warehouse, officers executed a search warrant.
Under the cilantro, peppers and other green vegetables, agents found 1,572 pounds of marijuana.
The approximate street value of the marijuana seized is $3.14 million, according to court documents.
Officers also discovered the men are from Mexico but lived in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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