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EL PASO — A pair of former El Paso high school students were sentenced to federal prison Wednesday for their roles in a marijuana smuggling ring. Rene Humberto Perez, 18, was sentenced to just over 10 years while 19-year-old Rosalia Vega was ordered to spend nearly four years in federal prison.

Perez and Vega, former students at Horizon High School, pleaded guilty in October to charges of conspiracy to import more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, importation of more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, and possession with intent to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana.

According to federal prosecutors, Perez recruited Vega and other former and current Horizon students to help smuggle more than 10,000 pounds of marijuana from Ciudad Juarez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso, into Texas and Oklahoma City.

Other defendants in the case, primarily drug couriers, have also been convicted of drug charges in state or federal court, prosecutors said.

The pair's co-defendant, 39-year-old Ruben Delgado of Del Valle, faces a minimum of 20 years in prison when he is sentenced on April 28.

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