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Date: 04-13-2023
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Case Number: 3:22-cr-00156
Judge: Ed Kinkeade
Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Dallas County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office in Dallas
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute.
An investigation was begun when a confidential informant tipped off law enforcement that Jesus Alexander Perez Fuentes, 27, was distributing fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone tablets marked M/30.
On March 30, 2022, agents received information that Mr. Fuentes would be at the Galleria Dallas Mall with well over a thousand counterfeit pills. A surveillance team observed Mr. Fuentes and an unknown female exit the mall and enter Mr. Fuentes’ pickup.
Troopers followed the pair towards Interstate 635, then pulled over the pickup for traffic infractions. A Dallas Police Department canine alerted to narcotics in the vehicle.
In the center console, law enforcement found a loaded Glock 30, which Mr. Fuentes later admitted he used in furtherance of drug trafficking. Under the driver’s seat, they found a black backpack containing two clear plastic baggies stuffed with 2,072 fentanyl-laced pills. Also inside the backpack was $13,821, which Mr. Fuentes later admitted was proceeds from drug trafficking.
The Drug Enforcement Administration’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Group 3 (Dallas Field Division), the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Dallas Police Department, the Frisco Police Department, and the Colony Police Department conducted the investigation with the assistance of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, & Explosives’ Dallas Field Division.
21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(C) Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance
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Outcome: Defendant sentenced to 145 Months Custody of the Bureau of Prisons; 3 Years Supervised Release; $100.00 MSA.
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