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Nogales surgeon gets prison term for removing fingerprints

The Associated Press
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 02.13.2008
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Nogales plastic surgeon who removed the fingerprints of a man involved in a drug ring must serve 18 months in prison.
U.S. District Judge Yvette Kane in Harrisburg, Pa. called the crime “horrific” when she sentenced Dr. Jose Covarrubias on Tuesday.
Covarrubias could have faced a sentence twice as long.
But Kane ruled that prosecutors couldn’t prove Covarrubias knew about the specific crimes being committed by Marc George.
And Kane took another six months off the sentence because Covarrubias has helped authorities who were investigating some of his other clients.
Covarrubias is a U.S. citizen who lived in the border town of Nogales and practiced in Mexico.
He pleaded guilty in November to a federal charge of harboring and concealing a fugitive.
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