'M30 King of Fresno' pleads guilty to fentanyl charges

Operation Killer High, named aft ABC30's archetypal documentary Killer High, resulted successful charges for 17 different defendants.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced 23-year-old Horacio Torrecillas Urias Jr. agreed with prosecutors to plead blameworthy to a complaint of organisation of fentanyl and 1 complaint of conspiracy to administer fentanyl.

Urias is the self-proclaimed 'M30 King of Fresno.'

He was 1 of the high-profile arrests resulting from Homeland Security's October 2023 "Operation Killer High," named aft ABC30's archetypal documentary Killer High.

Urias faces a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of beingness successful prison.

"First of each it's going to prevention a batch of lives," said Flindt Andersen, laminitis of Parents and Addicts In Need.

Andersen says arrests and prosecutions similar this assistance the greater origin of getting fentanyl disconnected the streets.

"I evidently don't deliberation that's capable but I evidently privation to springiness recognition to DEA and instrumentality enforcement for doing the probe and getting this done and getting this feline enactment down bars. It's critical," said Andersen.

Investigators accidental Urias was obtaining and distributing tens of thousands of counterfeit M30 fentanyl pills and ample quantities of fentanyl powder, cocaine, and methamphetamine, which contributed to the spike successful cause overdoses successful and extracurricular of California.

Operation Killer High resulted successful charges for 17 different defendants.

All but 1 person present pleaded guilty. She is acceptable for proceedings astatine the extremity of September.

"Whatever we tin get disconnected the street, whoever we tin enactment successful jail, that is ever a bully step," said Andersen.

Urias volition beryllium sentenced successful December.

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