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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Three men were charged aft being caught attempting to merchantability much than 100,000 fentanyl pills astatine the parking batch astatine a portion promenade successful Madera, the United States Department of Justice said.
The DOJ says 28-year-old Jesus Valdez Castaneda of San Bernardino, 29-year-old Carlos German Fierro of Caruthers and 43-year-old Alejandro Soto Mares of Mexico were charged connected Thursday with conspiracy to administer fentanyl.
According to tribunal documents, Castaneda, Fierro and Mares conspired with others to administer and person with the intent to administer implicit 400 grams of fentanyl. The men past went to merchantability 150,000 fentanyl pills astatine a parking batch of a portion promenade successful Madera connected Feb. 21.
Federal officials accidental Castaneda and Mares were the archetypal to get astatine the location. They met with a idiosyncratic who was going to bargain the pills. After agreeing connected the price, Fierro and 2 different radical get with the pills successful a 2nd vehicle.
Before completing the deal, officials accidental the radical went into a adjacent Panda Express to bid food. Officers who were adjacent the determination converged connected the men and arrested them, besides seizing 150,000 pills and 2 firearms.
The DOJ says if convicted, each suspect faces a minimum statutory punishment of 10 years and maximum statutory punishment of beingness successful situation and a $10,000,000 good for the cause charge. Additionally, Fierro besides faces a minimum statutory punishment of 5 years for having a firearm successful "furtherance of a cause trafficking crime."
