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TALLAHASSEE, FL - Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that a former resident of Collier County was convicted for conspiracy to traffic cocaine and trafficking cocaine. Daniel Cisneros, 29, faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 15 years in prison when he is sentenced at a later date. He was prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecution.

In September 2006, narcotics detectives with the Collier County Sheriff’s Office used a court authorized wire tap to intercept the phone communications of Cisneros and his conspirators. Detectives conducted surveillance and followed Cisneros from Naples to the Tampa Bay area, where Cisneros picked up nearly two kilograms of cocaine from his supplier. Cisneros transported the cocaine back to Collier County and was arrested upon arrival.

Prior to his trial, Cisneros had moved to Texas while on bond, but the State of Florida revoked his bond and a warrant was issued for his arrest after he failed to show up for an earlier trial date. Cisneros was convicted of conspiracy to traffic in cocaine, 400 grams or more and trafficking in cocaine, 400 grams or more. A Collier County jury returned the guilty verdict late yesterday afternoon. Judge Franklin Baker of the Collier County Circuit Court presided over the trial.