Salcedo

After a 10-week jury trial, defendants Jesus Serrano Salcedo (Serrano), Marcos Nava, and Moisés Serrano Chavez (Chavez) were each convicted on one count of conspiracy to sell or transport cocaine during the period from January 1, 1986, to November 21, 1991 (count 1; Pen. Code, § 182/Health & Saf. Code, § 11352), and multiple counts charging substantive offenses pursuant to the conspiracy. Codefendant Alejandro Gonzalez was acquitted on all charges. Codefendant Antonio Zaragoza, the alleged “hub” of the conspiracy, obtained a mistrial after the jury hung on all counts.

In addition to count 1, Serrano and Nava were charged and convicted on counts 2-7, all alleging felony sale or transportation of cocaine during 1990 (Health & Saf. Code, § 11352; all subsequent undesignated section references are to this code); count 9 (felony sale or transportation of cocaine on January 18, 1991 [§ 11352]); count 10 (felony possession of 3 pounds or more of cocaine for sale on January 24, 1991 [§§ 11351, 11370.4, former subd. (a)(1)]); count 11 (felony possession of cocaine for sale on May 2, 1991 [§ 11351]); count 12 (felony sale or transportation of cocaine weighing 10 pounds or more on…