Three people accused of funneling cocaine from Mexico through Texas and into the Pittsburgh area have been convicted in federal court on the charges.

Emilio Carmona-Cepeda, an illegal immigrant from Mexico and Mario Soto of Texas, were convicted on federal drug trafficking charges and each sentenced to spend 10 years in a federal prison. The third person, Marquetta Mitchell of Penn Hills, pleaded guilty and will be sentenced in August.

Federal drug enforcement agents and , whose local barracks are located on McCormick Road in Moon, said they disrupted the large Tex-Mex cocaine pipeline that included 25,000 packets of crack cocaine with a street value of more than $500,000.