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A federal judge in the District of Columbia sentenced a Mexican who overstayed a tourist visa to a year in jail for cocaine distribution.<\/p>\n

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Sergio Castillo-Lopez, 29, alias Sergio Chitel, was allowed entry into the U.S. in 2017 on the visa. Instead of leaving as required, he stayed at a residence in Northwest Washington from which he ran his cocaine dealing operation, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Columbia said on Friday.<\/p>\n

Castillo-Lopez was finally busted on Oct. 9, when law enforcement served a search warrant at his residence in the 3000 block of Warder Street NW.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officers found nearly half a kilogram of cocaine, worth about $12,000 on the street, two scales and $3,126 in small bills \u201cconsistent with street-level drug proceeds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of the cocaine that was found had already been divvied up into sale-ready, gram-size bags, federal prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

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On Jan. 21, Castillo-Lopez pleaded guilty to a count of possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute.<\/p>\n

The judge on Friday also ordered Castillo-Lopez to serve three years of supervised release following his year in jail, and federal prosecutors said he agreed not to contest his deportation to Mexico following his jail term.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis criminal will spend the remainder of his unlawful stay in the United States in a prison cell and will then face deportation proceedings,\u201d U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said in her office\u2019s release.<\/p>\n

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