Man Pleads Guilty To Drug Charge

{Midland, Texas}…Federal prosecutors in Midland, Texas say 37 year old Rigoberto Marquez of Odessa pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon to conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Police say, in mid-2011, Marquez tried to recruit another Texas driver to transport cocaine from Arizona to Ohio, then return money from the sales to Arizona, but the trucker became an FBI informant. On November 18, 2011, Kentucky State Police near Elizabethtown confiscated about $307,000 in drug money hidden in the truck Marquez was driving from Columbus, Ohio.