TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced an Orlando man was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his role in a heroin and cocaine trafficking operation which distributed narcotics throughout Central Florida. Charles Guzman pled guilty in November 2008 to conspiring to traffic in 400 grams or more of cocaine in a case prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecution.
Guzman, 42, was arrested in January 2008 after a lengthy investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Central Florida High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force. The investigation revealed that Guzman and a group of associates were distributing significant amounts of heroin and cocaine onto the streets of Central Florida.
In addition to his prison sentence, Guzman will be supervised by probation officers for 12 years after he is released and must reimburse the state for the costs of prosecution. He was sentenced by the Honorable Tim Shea of the Ninth Judicial Circuit. Seven of Guzman’s co-defendants have previously been sentenced to probationary or prison sentences and six are awaiting sentencing later this summer.