A Guatemalan national will spend the rest of his life in U.S. federal prison for his part in an international cocaine ring.
Waldemar Lorenzana-Cordon was sentenced Thursday, one year after he was tried and convicted.
His punishment "sends a powerful message to leaders of drug-trafficking organizations that if they send their poison to our country, the United States and our international partners will work tirelessly to bring them to justice," Acting Assistant Attorney General John Cronan said.
U.S. prosecutors charged Lorenzana-Cordon and his brother Eliu Lorenzana-Cordon with receiving, storing and distributing tons of cocaine from Colombia and Guatemala, and trafficking the drug thorough Mexico and into the United States.
Eliu Lorenzana-Cordon was sentenced to life in prison in February.
Prosecutors say the brothers worked with the Mexican-based Sinaloa cartel.
