Super Pollo restaurateur sentenced for coke trafficking

Juan Delgado, the 35-year-old co-owner of Super Pollo, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison yesterday for his involvement in a heavy-weight plot to traffic cocaine from somewhere in Mexico to the Paris of the Plains.

It all started back in 2006, when federal agents noticed something hooey about Super Pollo’s balance sheet. The restaurant was depositing more money into its bank account than it could account for through legitimate sales, according to the US Attorney of Western Missouri’s office.

The chicken was good, but it wasn’t that good.

Delgado, also known as Cachetes and Marana, was the center of an anti-cocaine trafficking investigation that included 100 officers, undercover buys, wiretaps and surveillance. Law enforcement agents nabbed about $1 million in cash, and 11 properties through which Delgado, and his wife/accomplice/Super Pollo co-owner Sylvia Delgado, 29, laundered money.

Delgado has been ordered to forfeit $2.3 million in cocaine-trafficking/money-laundering related loot.