LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) —
    Federal prosecutors in Louisiana say a Moss Bluff man faces more than eight years in prison for running a ring that sold and hauled a ton of marijuana in Texas and Louisiana.
    U.S. Attorney Stephanie Finley said Friday that 43-year-old David Cantu-Lopez was sentenced Thursday to 96 months on one count of conspiracy to possess marijuana with plans to distribute it.
    He pleaded guilty in March, signing a statement that he was warehousing marijuana in Houston and distributing it out of his trailer in Moss Bluff, she said.
    Four other defendants were sentenced earlier for the same conspiracy charge, Finley said.
    Jamie Garza, 47, of Edinburg, Texas, was sentenced on Aug. 11 to 6 years and 11 months in prison and four years of supervised release.
    Bertoldo Tolo Labra, 32, of Morelos, Mexico, and Juan Antonio Garcia, 59, of Nueva Laredo, Mexico, were sentenced in February, Labra to time served and two years of supervised release and Garcia to six years and eight months in prison and three years of supervised release.
    Lisa Diane Long, 51, of Lake Charles, was sentenced Nov. 11 to time served and a year of supervised release for one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
    According to the statement signed by Cantu-Lopez, investigators confiscated more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana from the group between June 25, 2015, and Sept. 13, 2013. The largest amounts were taken when Garcia was stopped in a pickup with nearly 1,200 pounds, and when Garza was arrested in George West, Texas, with nearly 840 pounds of marijuana in a truck and horse trailer.