Randy Harrod, Methamphetamine Conspiracy and Possession, Louisiana 2023

A Texas man has been sentenced to 108 months in prison for his role in a methamphetamine conspiracy and possession case in Louisiana.

Randy Harrod, age 45, a resident of Trinity, Texas, was sentenced on October 26, 2023, by United States District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to 108 months imprisonment, 3 years of supervised release, and a $100.00 mandatory special assessment fee after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute a quantity of methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1), 841 (b)(1)(C), and 846, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.

According to court documents, between May 25, 2020, and July 2, 2020, Ryan Fremin traveled from the Eastern District of Louisiana to the Houston, Texas area on five occasions to purchase kilogram quantities of methamphetamine from Leonel Gonzalez, a Houston-based narcotics trafficker.

On three of those occasions, Fremin arranged the transactions with Harrod, who negotiated the price with Fremin or accepted payment from Fremin for the drugs at a hotel in Houston reserved by Harrod before Gonzalez arrived later with the drugs.

On July 12, 2020, a confidential source contacted Harrod to purchase a kilogram of methamphetamine from Harrod.

Harrod met the confidential source in Houston and drove him to a hotel where Gonzalez met them and sold the methamphetamine to the confidential source.

This case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration. The prosecution was handled by Assistant United States Attorney André Jones of the Narcotics Unit.

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