"When you do things that you know aren't right, it's not because you want to do something bad, but it's just necessity, Erazo told his probation officer, according to the defense sentencing memo."
"I didn't have a place to live. I wish I had been able to do something else for money."
Gustavo Erazo was extradited from Honduras and sentenced to five years in federal prison by Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer for fentanyl trafficking. Erazo was indicted alongside two co-defendants after federal raids targeted stash houses in Oakland and Berkeley. Authorities recovered approximately 15 pounds of fentanyl at the Berkeley stash house and about 1.5 pounds at Erazo's Oakland residence, along with more than $50,086 in cash. Co-defendants Melvin Diaz-Arteaga and Luis Erazo-Centeno received 78 and 56 months, respectively. Erazo was born in Honduras, endured extreme poverty, began working at age 10, lost a brother to gun violence, came to the United States in 2000, and sold fentanyl in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood.
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