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Date: 10-06-2022

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United States of America v. Patrick Botello

Case Number: 2:17-cr-00234

Judge: Troy L. Nunley

Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of California (Sacramento County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office

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Description: Sacramento, California criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with participating in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin.

Patrick Botello, age 36, of Richmond, California, and another inmate incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison arranged with four people outside the prison to obtain methamphetamine and heroin, conceal the drugs within balloons, and then smuggle the drugs into the prison.

Botello was one of 27 federal defendants arrested in February 2018 on narcotics and weapons-related charges as part of Operation Silent Night, a multi‑agency law enforcement investigation into coordinated criminal activity in Woodland. Beginning in the spring of 2016, the investigation uncovered organized criminal activity in Woodland with ties to criminal organizations in California’s jail and prison system. Although centered in Yolo County, the investigation revealed that at least nine other California counties were negatively impacted by these criminal organizations: Sacramento, Sutter, Colusa, Yuba, Del Norte, Solano, Fresno, Santa Clara, and Siskiyou.

Operation Silent Night is the product of an investigation by the FBI, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office, the Woodland Police Department, and the California Highway Patrol. The following agencies provided substantial assistance: the Colusa County Sheriff’s Office, the Sacramento Police Department, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, the West Sacramento Police Department, the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office, the Davis Police Department, the Yuba City Police Department, the Yuba County Sheriff’s Office, the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office, the Solano County Sheriff’s Office, the Vacaville Police Department, the Correctional Intelligence Task Force, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Assistant U.S. Attorney Justin Lee is prosecuting the cases.

Violation of 21 U.S.C. 841

Outcome: Imprisonment of 135 months, to run concurrently to the undischarged term of imprisonment in Contra Costa County Superior Court Docket No. 5-080788-3. The Court recommended that the defendant be incarcerated at FCI, Mendota, California, and participate in the 500-Hour Bureau of Prisons Substance Abuse Treatment Program. Upon release from imprisonment, the defendant shall be placed on Supervised Release for 60 months. The defendant shall pay a Special Assessment of $100.00, payment to begin immediately. The Court found the defendant does not have the ability to pay a fine, and imposition of a fine was waived.

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