Two illegal immigrants from Cuba with criminal records are behind bars after police say they were selling drugs and had stolen guns.After their arrests, Cesar Valdes, 89, and Magdaleno Medina, 73, were found to have been in the country illegally – for more than 45 years.Their recent trouble began after the Miami Police Department sent an undercover officer to purchase $60 worth of cocaine from Medina on Aug.19, according to court records.Magdaleno Medina, 73, is believed to have been in the United States illegally for 46 years and now faces a slew of charges tied to armed drug trafficking.
(Miami-Dade Corrections)ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ACCUSED OF FENTANYL DEALING LINKED TO VIRGINIA HIGH SCHOOL OVERDOSESAfter Medina allegedly sold the officer the drug, police returned to the "trailer" on Sept.9 with a narcotics search warrant.
They found Valdes there, too.In their search, officers said they found dozens of clear bags of cocaine and marijuana, ammunition, stolen firearms and more than $4,800.ICE LODGES DETAINER FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WITH LENGTHY RAP SHEET AFTER ALLEGED JEALOUSY-FUELED KILLINGThe men entered the country without inspection near Key West, Florida, on different days in May 1980, an ICE spokesman told Fox News Digital.Medina has four prior felony convictions in the United States for cocaine smuggling, drug possession and drug trafficking, an ICE spokesman said.An immigration judge issued him a final order of exclusion July 24, 1996.EXCLUSIVE: 5-TIME ILLEGAL ENTRANT ADMITS ‘MISTAKE’ THAT FINALLY GOT HIM BUSTED BY ICEFinal orders of exclusion were decisions made by immigration judges and issued before April 1997.
That’s when a new system of removal proceedings began, according to the U.S.Department of Justice.The details of Medina’s prior arrests and convictions were unavailable.
It was unclear whether he spent any time in jail.ICE-LED FLORIDA OPERATION NETS 500 — INCLUDING ILLEGAL ALIENS ACCUSED OF MURDER, CHILD ABUSE, CARTEL TIESCesar Valdes, 89...