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Local News in Brief : 10-Year Prison Term for Selling Cocaine

Millionaire cattle rancher Leonardo Subias, a suspect in the 1985 torture-murder of a U.S. narcotics agent, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for selling about two pounds of cocaine in 1980.

Subias, 42, who is also suspected of killing a Mexican Federal Judicial Police officer in Tijuana in 1984, was sentenced in federal court in Los Angeles on his June 16 conviction for conspiracy and aiding and abetting a cocaine sale in Monterey Park eight years ago.

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