Braulio Villa-Chairez, Methamphetamine Conspiracy, West Virginia 2024

A Mexican national living illegally in the United States has pleaded guilty to a federal drug crime in West Virginia.

Braulio Villa-Chairez, 31, also known as ‘Raul,’ pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute a quantity of methamphetamine in the Southern District of West Virginia.

According to court documents and statements made in court, Villa-Chairez conspired with other individuals to distribute methamphetamine from March 2024 until in or around about October 2024. He admitted that he assisted the conspiracy by shipping methamphetamine to West Virginia and elsewhere.

In July 2024, Villa-Chairez shipped two separate packages containing a total of 1.97 kilograms of methamphetamine ‘ice’ from Houston, Texas, to a customer in West Virginia after receiving instructions from a co-conspirator. On or about July 18, 2024, Villa-Chairez picked up a package containing $4,800 sent by the customer, notified a co-conspirator that he had obtained the package, and re-shipped it to Washington state.

In August 2024, Villa-Chairez shipped a package containing approximately 963.8 grams of methamphetamine to Alabama. In October 2024, Villa-Chairez assisted a co-conspirator who was delivering approximately 5.905 kilograms of methamphetamine ‘ice’ and approximately 4.402 kilograms of methamphetamine by vehicle to West Virginia by providing him with directions to a hotel and a casino in Kanawha County.

Villa-Chairez is scheduled to be sentenced on December 8, 2025, and faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, at least three years of supervised release, and a $1 million fine. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has an immigration detainer on Villa-Chairez and he will be transferred to ICE administrative custody for removal proceedings upon the completion of any sentence.

Villa-Chairez and two other Mexican nationals living illegally in the United States were indicted by a federal grand jury as the result of a joint investigation by federal and local law enforcement into a conspiracy that was responsible for delivering large quantities of methamphetamine to West Virginia and elsewhere from Houston.

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