McDonough Man Sentenced to 30 Years for Conspiring to Import Cocaine, Heroin and Marijuana from Mexican Drug Cartel
On Friday, Marlon Burton of McDonough, Georgia , was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia for conspiring to distribute cocaine, heroin and marijuana, according to an FBI press release. Burton was alleged to have imported hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, heroin and marijuana to Atlanta from Mexican drug cartel and to have sold the drugs to various street-level dealers. He was alleged to have traveled to Mexico on several occasions to negotiate prices and quantities of drugs. Burton was alleged to have funneled over $1.5 million in drug proceeds through his construction company and other businesses he controlled. Following a year-long investigation, law enforcement officers stopped a tractor trailer in McDonough carrying 40 kilograms of cocaine. Burton and eight other individuals were indicted in the Northern District of Georgia.
