A Puerto Rican man has been convicted of trafficking tonnes of cocaine concealed inside furniture.

“The unanimous jury verdict holds Omar Lopez Castro accountable for his leadership role in a widespread cocaine trafficking organisation that flooded the streets with hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cocaine,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office stated in a statement.

“The unanimous jury verdict holds Omar Lopez Castro accountable for his leadership role in a widespread cocaine trafficking organisation that flooded the streets with hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cocaine,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office stated in a statement.

Castro already served a 10-year term for trafficking cocaine from Puerto Rico to New York, according to Williams, and “now faces the prospect of a lengthy prison sentence for his crime.”