Self-proclaimed 'king of Fresno' guilty, DOJ says

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A antheral who reportedly called himself the "M30 king of Fresno" pleaded blameworthy connected Tuesday to distributing fentanyl and possession of methamphetamine with intent to administer it, according to the national Department of Justice.

Federal officials accidental 23-year-old Horacio Torrecillas Urias Jr. of Fresno was getting counterfeit M30 fentanyl pills from Mexico - arsenic good arsenic ample amounts of fentanyl powder, cocaine, and methamphetamine. He and his co-defendants were distributing it some wrong and extracurricular California.

Following a bid of fentanyl-pill overdoses successful the Fresno area, caused by counterfeit oxycodone M30 tablets containing fentanyl (referred to connected the thoroughfare arsenic M30s), investigators began Operation Killer High to find the root of the pills, according to national prosecutors. That led to the uncovering of the drug-trafficking ringing led by 23-year-old Horacio Torrecillas Urias Jr., who called himself the "M30 king of Fresno."

Of the pills recovered by instrumentality enforcement, implicit 55,000 counterfeit M30 fentanyl pills, six pounds of fentanyl powder, 10 pounds of methamphetamine, and a lb of cocaine were discovered, officials say. 25 firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition were besides found.

According to the national Department of Justice, Torrecillas Urias is scheduled to beryllium sentenced successful December. He faces a mandatory minimum condemnation of 10 years and a maximum condemnation of beingness successful prison.