Dionicio Galindo-Salinas, Cocaine Trafficking, Ohio 2025

Dionicio Galindo-Salinas, 49, Sentenced to 19 Years for Cocaine Trafficking

A Mexican national has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for his role in trafficking over 100 pounds of cocaine from Texas to Ohio.

Dionicio Galindo-Salinas, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced to 235 months in prison by U.S. District Judge John R. Adams after pleading guilty in April to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine.

According to court records, Galindo-Salinas had previously been removed from the United States. His co-conspirator, Earl King, age 45, of Cleveland, regularly traveled over 1,600 miles to the US-Mexico border to purchase bulk quantities of cocaine from Galindo-Salinas.

After purchasing the cocaine, King would ship it to the Cleveland area through a UPS-Staples store in Brownsville, Texas. Investigators discovered records indicating that King had been making these long treks from Cleveland to Brownsville since approximately 2020, and that King had purchased at least 47 kilograms (over 100 pounds) of cocaine from Galindo-Salinas during the conspiracy.

The estimated street value of 47 kilograms of cocaine in the Cleveland area would have been over $2 million during the timeframe of the conspiracy.

U.S. Attorney David M. Toepfer for the Northern District of Ohio stated, ‘Anyone who thinks they can use Northern Ohio as a marketplace to peddle illegal drugs on behalf of transnational criminal organizations will face consequences.’ He added, ‘We are fully committed to protecting the public by aggressively enforcing federal laws to keep our communities safe.’

ICE HSI Detroit acting Special Agent in Charge Jared Murphey said, ‘ICE HSI will continue to investigate, disrupt and dismantle cross-border drug trafficking organizations that seek to poison our communities.’

Galindo-Salinas is the fourth defendant to be convicted and sentenced in the investigation. Earl King was previously sentenced to 15 years in prison, while co-conspirators Curtis Anderson and Donnell Gochett were sentenced to 25 years and over eight years in prison, respectively.

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