my personal advice... find a good lawyer, face the time and
handle your shit, you knew the penalties and decided to take
that gamble, I had a friend that was looking at the same sort of
time after selling LSD to a cop, with a public defender the
charges were dismissed, the PD just did the job he was supposed to

I was facing 20 years about 20 years ago, I managed to get 2 on
probation with a hired lawyer, my rights restored and I get to
be a human again.

running seems like an valid option, it's only going to take one
fuckup in another country to discover our system is like staying
at the hilton