MEADVILLE, Pa. (EYT) — According to sources, two Texas brothers have entered guilty pleas in Crawford County Court on charges of coordinating the transportation and distribution of marijuana in northwestern Pennsylvania.

Sources say on November 1, 2012, 29-year-old Marcelino Rodriguez of Eddy, TX, and 29-year-old Miguel Rodriguez of Corpus Christi, TX, pleaded guilty to one count each of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and criminal use of a communication device in Crawford County Court of Common Pleas.

This summer, the Attorney General’s Bureau of Narcotics Investigation and PA State Police arrested the Rodriguez brothers and seven others involved in the shipment of drugs to Pennsylvania and the transfer of money back to Texas.

The Rodriguez brothers were allegedly assisted by 29-year-old Robert Karl Conaway (whose address is listed as unknown) in the distribution of marijuana in and around Crawford County.

According to officials, Marcelino Rodriguez and Conaway were arrested in August of 2010 in Crawford County on unrelated warrants, but the two allegedly attempted to continue operating their drug organization from inside the Crawford County jail.

According to court records, Rodriguez and Conaway made numerous recorded telephone calls while inside the jail.

With their guilty pleas, Marcelino Rodriguez now faces up to 12 years in prison and $30,000 in fines, and Miguel Rodriguez faces up 17 years in prison and $45,000 in fines.

Their sentencing is scheduled for December 14, 2012.

Four other suspects in this case are scheduled to go to trial in January in Crawford County Court of Common Pleas, two others have pleaded guilty to lesser charges, and one person’s case is listed as inactive.

Twenty-five-year-old Adam Wood of Venango is scheduled to go to trial on charges of two counts of participating in a corrupt organization; one count of dealing in proceeds of unlawful activity; one count of delivery of a controlled substance; one count of possession of a controlled substance; one count of criminal conspiracy; and one count of criminal use of a communications facility.

Wood remains jailed in lieu of $100,000 bond.

Twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth Ann Bevilheimer of Saegertown is charged with one count of dealing in proceeds of unlawful activity; one count of criminal use of a communications facility; and one count of criminal conspiracy.

She was released on nominal bond, but is being held in the Crawford County jail on other unrelated charges.

Twenty-five-year-old Jeramie John Ebbert of Meadville is scheduled to go to trial in county court in January on one count of delivery of marijuana; one count of possession of marijuana; one count of criminal use of a communications facility; and one count of criminal conspiracy.

Ebbert is free on $25,000 unsecured bond.

61-year-old Silas Mark Deets of Venango is scheduled to go to trial on one count of criminal conspiracy, and one count of criminal use of a communications facility.

Deets is free on $15,000 unsecured bond.

Twenty-five-year-old Pamela Barrientos of Eddy, TX, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal conspiracy and faces up to five years in prison and a $15,000 fine when she is sentenced on November 30.

Thirty-year-old Laura Rodriguez of Chilton, TX, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal conspiracy and faces up to five years in prison and a $15,000 fine when sentenced on November 30.

Both Barrientos and Rodriguez remain lodged in the Crawford County jail in lieu of $200,000 bond each.

Conaway is charged with two counts of participating in a corrupt organization; three counts of delivery of a controlled substance; two counts of possession of a controlled substance; one count of criminal conspiracy; one count of criminal use of a communications facility; and one count of dealing in proceeds of unlawful activity.

His case is listed as inactive in court records.

Source: Meadville Tribune