GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - An eighth person in a federal drug case has pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute oxycodone in Mississippi.
The Sun Herald reports 35-year-old Milton Sylvester Cuevas III, of Long Beach, Miss., will be sentenced on May 6. He pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court.
An indictment in August charged eight suspects with a pain-pill conspiracy operating since at least 2009.
The eight were arrested in a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation of a related case involving a Hudson, Fla., couple and two Gulfport residents.
The conspirators were indicted after DEA agents found 374 pain pills in the Florida couple's hotel room in Biloxi in December 2010.
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