United States v. Peter Tovar Camarillo

Following a jury trial, appellant Cam-arillo, together with co-defendants Paul Judd, Hovespian, and Sotelo were convicted on Counts Four, Five and Six of a six count indictment. Co-defendant Prince was acquitted.

Count Four charged a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 174 on or about September 19, 1969, when the appellant and the other persons named in that count knowingly received, concealed, and facilitated the concealment and transportation of 648.-40 grams of heroin which they knew had been previously imported into the United States.

Count Five charged that appellant and his co-defendants knowingly and unlawfully sold and facilitated the sale to Federal Agent Lawrence Lusardi the same heroin, which said defendants knew had been imported into the United States contrary to law.

Count Six charged that appellant and his co-defendants sold the same amount of heroin to Agent Lusardi without obtaining from him a written order from the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, contrary to 26 U.S.C. § 4705 (a).

Co-defendant Paul Judd, and Judd’s wife, the only defendants named in Counts One, Two and Three of the indictment, were convicted on each of the three counts. The three offenses…