- US Marshals Service/AP
- Pedro and Margarito Flores
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For their help, the twins received 14 year prison sentences Tuesday from federal judge Ruben Castillo, far less than the life terms they faced for the scale of their drug trafficking.
Officials have not revealed where the brothers have been detained, where they’ll serve the rest of their sentences, or what steps will be taken to protect them when they’re released.
“Their organization was simply the largest known criminal enterprise in the history of this city,” federal prosecutor Michael Ferrara said in court Tuesday. “The cartel simply did not expect them to be anything other than the cash cow outlet they had been for years.”
Prosecutors cited the abduction as an example of the risk the brothers had taken when they decided to cooperate. For that reason, they argued that the twins should get no more than 16 years in prison.
