Rito Alvarado Gomez, Drug Conspiracy, Oklahoma 2025

Muskogee, OK – In a major blow to the region’s illicit drug trade, Rito Alvarado Gomez, a 37-year-old Arkansas resident, has been sentenced to 188 months in prison for leading a drug trafficking organization.

The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Ronald A. White, Chief U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

According to investigators, the conspiracy, which began in 2018 and continued until March 2024, involved Alvarado Gomez and four co-defendants traveling from Arkansas into the Eastern District of Oklahoma to distribute methamphetamine. The defendants sold over 9 kilograms of methamphetamine as part of the conspiracy.

The charges arose from a joint investigation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration-McAlester Resident Office, along with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Federal Bureau of Investigation-Texarkana Resident Agency, Homeland Security Investigations-Texarkana, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, the 8th North Drug Task Force out of Hope, Arkansas, and the 9th West Drug Task Force out of Nashville, Arkansas.

Alvarado Gomez’s co-defendants were also sentenced at hearings held between March 25, 2025, and May 6, 2025. Ricardo Villeda, age 26, was sentenced to 151 months in prison for Distribution of Methamphetamine, while Jose Alberto Alvarado Gomez, age 34, received a 68-month sentence for the same crime. Iris Yosellin Luna-Herrera, age 27, was sentenced to 41 months in prison for Distribution of Methamphetamine. Ana Isabel Frayre Barboza, age 38, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for Misprision of Felony.

The investigation and subsequent prosecution were part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) investigation, which uses a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency approach to dismantle the highest-level drug traffickers and other transnational criminal organizations.

The U.S. Marshals Service is currently holding Rito Alvarado Gomez, Jose Alvarado Gomez, Ricardo Villeda, and Iris Luna Herrera in custody pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve non-paroleable sentences of incarceration. Ana Frayre Barboza was ordered to report to the U.S. Marshals on June 2, 2025, to begin serving her non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.

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