Each state may also have its own laws regarding trafficking. You could be charged by state and federal courts for the exact same crime without triggering double jeopardy. For example, in Florida, trafficking 28 to 200 grams of cocaine will earn you a 3-year mandatory minimum sentence and a $50,000 fine, while you could also get 10 years to a life sentence in federal court depending on your previous charges.
Depending on what you are accused of trafficking, you could be facing any number of extreme penalties. We can handle some of the following federal trafficking crimes:
- Drug/ controlled substance trafficking: Transporting controlled substances across state lines or into the country.
- Sex trafficking/ sexual slavery: Exploiting human beings by selling them to customers for the purpose of performing sexual services.
- Human trafficking: Exploiting people by selling them for the purpose of forced labor or commercial exploitation.
- Straw purchasing of firearms: Purchasing a gun of a firearm for the purpose of transferring it to a person who cannot legally buy it themsely