FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The last idiosyncratic has been sentenced successful a monolithic cause trafficking probe that involved the self-proclaimed "M30 King of Fresno" and importing drugs from Mexico into the United States.
According to the national Department of Justice, 24-year-old Alma Garza was sentenced connected Monday to six years and 8 months successful situation for conspiring to administer and person with intent to administer fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine arsenic good arsenic possession with intent to administer cocaine and methamphetamine.
According to national prosecutors, Garza was recovered blameworthy successful September aft grounds was presented that she was a trusted adjunct of the self-proclaimed "M30 King of Fresno," Horacio Torrecillas Urias Jr. The tribunal was told that betwixt November 2021 and March 2022, thousands of counterfeit M30 fentanyl pills and ample quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine were brought into the United States from Mexico.
The tribunal was told astir 2 circumstantial incidents: the archetypal was successful January 2022, erstwhile Garza mailed a bundle containing cocaine and methamphetamine to a co-defendant successful New Mexico and instrumentality enforcement seized the package. The 2nd was successful February 2022, erstwhile Garza traveled to Sanger with Torrecillas Urias to present thousands of pills laced with fentanyl and methamphetamine; those drugs were aboriginal seized by instrumentality enforcement arsenic well.
Following the sentencing of Garza and Torrecillas Urias, each 19 defendants facing charges successful this cause trafficking probe person been sentenced, according to national officials.