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A jury convicted a 36-year-old Harrisburg man on Monday of trafficking over 2,200 pounds of marijuana and related offenses after he hired a gunmen to protect and track down shipments of drugs from California between 2018 and 2020, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Christopher Texidor, and other co-defendants, used Fastlane Auto Sales, a used car lot on Paxton Street in Harrisburg, to receive packages containing thousands of pounds of marijuana from a “drug source” in California, according to a press release. Texidor used the U.S. Postal Service to receive the packages and send large amounts of money in exchange for the marijuana.