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In another video from August 2021, Franco could be seen holding up a brick of suspected drugs imprinted with the Audi logo. A third video showed an orange package, and a man believed to be Franco could be heard saying it “came from this microwave” in Fresno, Calif., before pointing the camera to a microwave with a manipulated back panel.
Franco, who is accused of trafficking fentanyl and cocaine through the U.S. mail, objected in federal court Thursday to prosecutors showing these videos to a 16-person jury.
Franco, 36, is serving as his own defense lawyer in the federal criminal trial, and objected to all the videos shown in court Thursday, as well as made multiple objections during a witness’s testimony. U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden overruled these objections.
“I object to everything,” he said at one point in the trial.
Franco is facing four offenses: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl and cocaine, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Court documents also allege that three overdose deaths in 2021 were connected to Franco and his co-defendant and then-girlfriend, Daniella Fox.
Fox pleaded guilty in February 2024 to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl, according to federal court records. She is scheduled to be sentenced on March 19.
Though Franco is representing himself, the judge did appoint lawyers to be on standby to assist at his request: Avon-based attorneys Joseph Patten Brown and Alissa C. Gatto. If Franco decides not to continue to represent himself, Brown and Gatto may take over the defense.
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