A “prolific firearms trafficker” who federal prosecutors say provided guns and ammunition to the Sinaloa Cartel was sentenced in San Diego Monday to nearly 20 years in prison. Keith Octavio Rodriguez Padilla,

Prosecutors said Keith Rodriguez Padilla obtained powerful guns and ammunition for the Valenzuela trafficking organization

A "prolific firearms trafficker" has been sentenced to 19.5 years in federal prison for his role in supplying weapons and ammunition to the Valenzuela Transnational Criminal Organization (TCO), a significant component of the Sinaloa Cartel, per U.S. Attorney Tara McGrath.

A weapons trafficker who smuggled arms into Mexico through U.S. ports of entry, including San Diego, for an offshoot of the Sinaloa Cartel was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison on Monday, federal prosecutors said in a release.