Jorge Alejandro Sanchez Jimenez, Methamphetamine Conspiracy, California 2015

Three methamphetamine dealers have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a San Jose-based trafficking operation.

Jorge Alejandro Sanchez Jimenez, 24, and Francisco Ortiz, 25, were each sentenced to ten years in prison on [insert date] for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. Macario Jimenez-Corona, 49, was sentenced to seven years in prison for attempting to possess methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it.

The sentences were handed down by U.S. District Judges Edward J. Davila and Ronald M. Whyte. Ortiz and Sanchez Jimenez were each sentenced to a 5 year period of supervised release in addition to their prison terms. Macario Jimenez-Corona was sentenced to a 3 year period of supervised release.

Jorge Alejandro Sanchez Jimenez had previously worked as a ‘runner’ for a major methamphetamine dealer, Ademar Becerril, who was separately prosecuted in Case No. 13-CR-00798-RMW. Becerril was sentenced to over 16 years in prison on June 1, 2015.

In 2012 and 2013, Sanchez Jimenez distributed methamphetamine using another person to deliver the drugs and collect cash for him. He rented a room in an apartment in San Jose that was used as a location to prepare drugs for delivery.

Law enforcement officers intercepted Sanchez Jimenez’ telephone conversations and observed his runner at the apartment. In September 2013, HSI agents searched the rented room and discovered digital scales, plastic containers, packaging material, a scale, rubber bands, approximately $4500 in cash, and handwritten notes which were a form of homemade accounting to track amounts owed by customers, listing the customers and the amounts owed.

HSI and DEA agents then intercepted telephone calls in which Sanchez Jimenez indicated he had lost two pounds of drugs. He also indicated where the drugs were hidden. The agents returned to the room, removed an electric heater mounted along the floor of one wall, and found a hole in the wall. Inside the hole, they found approximately 1.2 kilograms of methamphetamine.

Sanchez Jimenez fled to Mexico in September 2013, according to the plea agreement. He returned to the Bay Area and was arrested on March 3, 2014. He has been in custody since that date.

Francisco Ortiz delivered methamphetamine on behalf of Becerril in 2013. On December 1, 2013, Ortiz was delivering methamphetamine when one of the other delivery persons, Arturo Cuevas-Quezadaz, was arrested with approximately 7.9 kilograms of methamphetamine. The next day, Ortiz was arrested at a restaurant in San Jose. He has been in custody since then. The agents also seized over $26,000 that Ortiz had delivered to Becerril and a list of drug customers and quantities that they were to receive.

Macario Jimenez-Corona was waiting to receive approximately three kilograms of methamphetamine from Arturo Cuevas-Quezadaz on December 1, 2013. Jimenez-Corona was in a car parked next to the car driven by Cuevas-Quezadaz, in a parking lot in San Jose when police officers arrested Cuevas-Quezadaz and seized the approximately 7.9 kilograms of methamphetamine he was transporting. Jimenez-Corona was released after being questioned by the officers. He was arrested the next day and has been in custody since then.

The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California and investigated by Homeland Security Investigations, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the San Jose Police Department.

Mandatory Facts: Jorge Alejandro Sanchez Jimenez (24), Francisco Ortiz (25), and Macario Jimenez-Corona (49) were sentenced for their roles in a methamphetamine trafficking operation. The sentences were handed down by U.S. District Judges Edward J. Davila and Ronald M. Whyte. The crimes were committed in San Jose, California. The sentences include 10 years in prison for Sanchez Jimenez and Ortiz, and 7 years in prison for Jimenez-Corona. The defendants were also sentenced to periods of supervised release. The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California.

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