Tyrone Anderson, Cocaine and Heroin Trafficking, California 2024

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – In a major blow to the city’s narcotics underworld, Tyrone Anderson, 44, of Sacramento, was sentenced today to 11 years and 3 months in prison for his role in a large-scale cocaine and heroin trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

According to court documents, Anderson was one of 15 federal defendants arrested in 2021 and charged in a 45-count indictment for trafficking narcotics as part of a DEA-led multi-agency operation targeting cocaine and heroin traffickers in North Sacramento.

Anderson was intercepted during wiretaps in 2018 and 2019 trafficking kilograms of cocaine and heroin to sub-distributors in California and from the East Coast. During the wiretap, agents seized 4 kilograms of cocaine that Anderson had sold for $118,000 to a Baltimore sub-distributor. At the time of his arrest, agents seized 567 grams of powder cocaine and 949 grams of heroin from Anderson’s stash location and two loaded firearms from his residence.

This case is the product of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the California Department of Justice, the California Highway Patrol, and the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office.

Anderson’s sentence is the latest in a string of convictions in this high-profile case. To date, 11 of the 15 defendants have been sentenced. Their prison terms include:

* Jason Tolbert, 47, of Sacramento, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine.

* Charles Carter, 36, of Sacramento, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute at least 500 grams of cocaine.

* Michael Hampton, 57, of Vallejo, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute at least 500 grams of cocaine.

* Steven Hampton, 65, of Sacramento, was sentenced to 84 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute at least 500 grams of cocaine.

Charges are pending against Yovanny Ontiveros, 41, of Sacramento and Wilmer Harden, 52, of Elk Grove. The charges are only allegations; the defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

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