It’s a given that if you’re selling drugs and you get caught you’re definitely going to jail. But, if during the process a police dog dies while searching for your product…the results can be far worse. That’s what seems to have happened with Gonzalez Lopez. Hit the jump for details.
(AP) NEW BERN, N.C. – A North Carolina man whose hidden cocaine was found by a police dog that bit into the package and died has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison.
Federal prosecutors said a judge Friday ordered 33-year-old Jamie Gonzalez-Lopez to spend 135 months behind bars. He pleaded guilty to several drug charges.
Authorities say undercover federal agents ordered a kilogram of cocaine from Gonzalez-Lopez in July 2011. Gonzalez-Lopez then hid the drugs in a Brunswick County field while waiting to meet the “buyer.”
Agents arrested Gonzalez-Lopez, and a sheriff’s drug-sniffing Belgian Malinois named Viper was sent into the field to find the drugs. Viper accidentally bit into the package and bit and shook it, ingesting a fatal amount of cocaine.
More than 200 people turned out for a memorial service for the dog.
