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Miguel Ordonez Pleads Guilty to Heroin Trafficking Charges
ALBUQUERQUE – Miguel Ordonez, 24, of Albuquerque, N.M., has pleaded guilty to heroin trafficking charges in federal court.
Ordonez and his four co-defendants, Gonzalo Montenegro-Coronel, 31, a Mexican national, Esther Ordonez, 48, and Reydecel Lopez-Ordonez, 24, both of Albuquerque, and Fernando Gomez-Campos, 21, of El Paso, Tex., were charged in a 13-count indictment that was filed on Dec. 2, 2015.
The indictment charged the defendants with participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy between Nov. 2014 and Sept. 2015, distributing heroin on eight occasions between Nov. 2014 and Sept. 2015, and with using telephones to facilitate drug trafficking crimes.
As part of his guilty plea, Ordonez admitted to selling 148 grams of heroin for $4,200 on March 27, 2015, and 98 grams of heroin for $3,200 on May 7, 2015, to an undercover agent.
Ordonez also admitted that from Nov. 10, 2014 and until his arrest in July 2015, he helped others store heroin for distribution at 2620 Katrina Dr. SW in Albuquerque.
At sentencing, Ordonez faces a statutory penalty of not less than five years nor more than 40 years of imprisonment. He remains in custody pending a sentencing hearing, which has yet to be scheduled.
The case was investigated by the Albuquerque office of the DEA and the HIDTA Region I Drug Task Force as part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) program.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Shaheen P. Torgoley and Stephen R. Kotz are prosecuting this case as part of the New Mexico Heroin and Opioid Prevention and Education (HOPE) Initiative.
The HOPE Initiative was launched in January 2015 by the UNM Health Sciences Center and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in response to the national opioid epidemic.
Miguel Ordonez, who remains in custody, is scheduled to be sentenced at a later date. Charges in indictments are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent unless found guilty in a court of law.
Key Facts
- State: New Mexico
- Category: Drug Trafficking
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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