Cosco-Boston

Angel G., 46, a native of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison for his role in smuggling cocaine and heroin through the Port of Savannah. Gomez and co-conspirator Jose Orlando Garcia Duran were convicted after a two-day jury trial on several charges relating to the smuggling of $500,000 worth of heroin and cocaine through the Port of Savannah. The evidence at trial showed that in March of 2010, Georgia Ports Authority Police became aware that three men, disguised as longshoremen who had disembarked the M/V Cosco Boston, a Chinese merchant vessel arriving from Panama, had boarded a taxi to take them to the gate of the Garden City Terminal. When the taxi driver advised the men to have their identification ready, they jumped out of the taxi and ran into a wooded area. The three men apprehended in the woods, where approximately 4 kilograms of cocaine and 2 kilograms of heroin were also found.