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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) A man from Los Angeles, California pleaded guilty to both being involved in a drug operation and mailing cocaine to Beaver County. According to the Department of Justice, thirty-three-year-old Jose Angel Sanchez entered a guilty plea on Thursday. A 2022 investigation into Sanchez confirms that he mailed 2 kilograms of cocaine to Aliquippa, which then went to West Virginia for a co-defendant, Christopher Salgado. The sentencing for Sanchez will be on October 2nd. Sanchez could get a maximum of no less than ten years and up to a life sentence in jail, an up to $10 million fine, or both, provided by the law.