HOLLIDAYSBURG — An Altoona man was sentenced Friday to five to 10 years in a state prison after being convicted of 13 drug-trafficking offenses. Carlos I. “Malik” Benitez, 47, tried in August to convince a jury that he was only a cocaine user, not a middle man as described by prosecutors and investigating officers. While a jury came back with 11 acquittals in connection with drug-trafficking offenses, it convicted Benitez on 13 others, including multiple counts of possession with intent to deliver cocaine, criminal conspiracy and cocaine delivery. Blair County Judge Elizabeth ...