Former New Mexico college football player faces possible life in prison after drug trafficking conviction

A former University of New Mexico football player could be sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted by a federal jury on conspiracy and drug trafficking charges. 

The Department of Justice (DOJ) says Rayshawn Boyce, 29, was running a methamphetamine distribution operation from inside a New Mexico prison.

Boyce was convicted last year in federal court of robbing a postal worker at gunpoint. He was also convicted on charges of stealing an arrow key, a universal key used by...