Date: 01-20-2023

Case Style:

United States of America v. Alex Murillo

Case Number: 3:22-cr-00268

Judge: Susan Illston

Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of California (San Francisco County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office in San Francisco

Defendant's Attorney:

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Description: San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with selling fentanyl and methamphetamine in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District.

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Alex Murillo, 25, a resident of Oakland, was charged by an eight count federal indictment on July 21, 2022. According to the charges and other documents filed by the government, Murillo sold drugs on the street in the Tenderloin on five occasions in the spring of 2022. On April 7, 2022, Murillo met two undercover police officers near 8th and Market Streets in the Tenderloin and sold the officers 5 grams of fentanyl for $100 on the San Francisco Civic Center BART staircase. On March 23, 2022, and on April 21, 2022, Murillo sold $40 of yellow fentanyl and $750 of pink fentanyl, respectively, to undercover officers in the Tenderloin. On May 12, 2022, Murillo sold approximately one ounce of fentanyl along with two ounces of methamphetamine to an undercover police officer for $800, again in the Tenderloin. On June 8, 2022, Murillo communicated again with one of the undercover police officers, met that officer again near the Civic Center BART platform, and sold the officer two ounces of fentanyl and three ounces of methamphetamine for $1,400.

Law enforcement officers arrested Murillo on June 21, 2022, outside of his apartment in Oakland and seized nearly four ounces of methamphetamine and 139 grams of fentanyl from his backpack. 

In addition to the 36 month sentence, Murillo was sentenced to a four year sentence of supervision following release from prison. Murillo was in custody at his sentencing hearing and begins serving his sentence immediately.

21:841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(C) - Possession with Intent to Distribute and Distribution of Fentanyl
(1-2)

21:841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(B)(vi) - Possession with Intent to Distribute and Distribution of 40 Grams and More of Fentanyl
(3)

21:841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(C) - Possession with Intent to Distribute and Distribution of Fentanyl
(4)

21:841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(B)(viii) - Possession with Intent to Distribute and Distribution of 50 Grams and More of a Mixture and Substance Containing Methamphetamine
(5)

21:841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(B)(vi) - Possession with Intent to Distribute and Distribution of 40 Grams and More Fentanyl
(6)

21:841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(B)(viii) - Possession with Intent to Distribute and Distribution of 50 Grams and More of a Mixture and Substance Containing Methamphetamine
(7)

21:841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(B)(viii) - Possession with Intent to Distribute of 50 Grams and More of a Mixture and Substance Containing Methamphetamine
(8)

Outcome: Defendant is committed to the Bureau of Prisons for a term of 36 months followed by 4 years of supervised release on Counts 1 through 8 of the Indictment to be served concurrently. 1 A special assessment fee of $800 is imposed. Fine is waived. See Judgment for Special Conditions.

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