ALBUQUERQUE – An Albuquerque man convicted of distributing heroin that resulted in the death of an 18-year-old addict in 2011 has been sentenced to life in federal prison.
Prosecutors say 36-year-old Raymond Moya was sentenced Thursday after being found guilty in May on two heroin trafficking offenses.
Moya was sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment on the heroin distribution not resulting in death charge with the sentence to run consecutive to a 72-month sentence previously imposed in another federal drug trafficking case in 2014.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment on the heroin distribution resulting in the death charge.
Moya was indicted in May 2015. At the time, Moya was serving a 72-month federal prison sentence for his conviction for committing a heroin trafficking crime in Albuquerque in November 2011.
Prosecutors said Cameron Weiss died from an overdose in August 2011, one day after buying heroin from Moya.
Moya faced a life prison sentence because of his status as a career offender with a criminal history that includes at least four previous felony convictions.
