Tag: Homeland Security Task Force
Alexis Donnell, Fentanyl Trafficking, Pennsylvania 2023
⏱ 2 min read A New Castle woman is going down for two-and-a-half years for pushing fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine in Western PA. Alexis Donnell, 30, pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute the deadly drugs between August 2023 and August 2024. According to court records, Donnell was part of a Detroit-based trafficking ring that sold…
Rose Lee Beranek, Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, Iowa 2025
⏱ 2 min read A 44-year-old Cedar Rapids woman is heading to the slammer for 12 years after getting caught with nearly two pounds of methamphetamine in her car. Rose Lee Beranek was driving from Arizona to Iowa in February 2024 when she was pulled over by law enforcement in Oklahoma. A search of her…
Lorenzo Blackwell, Drug Trafficking, South Carolina 2023
⏱ 2 min read Six people, including a 65-year-old, were busted in a massive drug trafficking ring in Sumter and Lee County, South Carolina. According to the indictment, Lorenzo Blackwell, 27, Marquis Quintell Durant, 38, Marcus Martenez McConico, 37, Kalvin Clay Singletary, 36, Perry Sherrod Taft, 65, and Nikennia Fatese Carter, 34, were trafficking massive…
Israel Sanchez Arciga, Conspiracy to Manufacture and Distribute Meth, Texas 2023
⏱ 2 min read A 48-year-old Mexican national living in the US illegally has been slammed with 27 years in federal prison for his role in a massive methamphetamine trafficking operation in Texas. Israel Sanchez Arciga, a notorious smuggler, was part of a crew that imported liquid meth from Mexico, cooked it in Texas labs,…
Dejuan Croom, Meth and Fentanyl Trafficking, California 2026
⏱ 2 min read A California man is going down for 23 years after getting caught running a meth and fentanyl operation in Sioux Falls. Dejuan Croom, 43, of Los Angeles, was sentenced to 23 years and 3 months in federal prison for his role in a California-Nevada based trafficking organization. Croom was part of…
Alysia Peneaux, Methamphetamine Trafficking, South Dakota 2024
⏱ 2 min read A Sioux Falls woman became the latest low-level player to get caught up in the national opioid crisis when she was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for running a methamphetamine ring in the city. Alysia Peneaux, 32, admitted to serving as a sub-distributor for a California- and Nevada-based drug…
Crysthian Omar Escobar Angel, Cocaine Trafficking, Texas 2026
⏱ 2 min read A ruthless Guatemalan trafficker has been sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for smuggling cocaine into the United States. Crysthian Omar Escobar Angel, 48, was at the helm of a massive drug cartel that brought in multi-ton quantities of cocaine from Colombia. Escobar Angel was identified by federal agents in…
Sergio Uriel Munoz-Rodriguez, Methamphetamine Trafficking, Texas 2024
⏱ 2 min read Sergio Uriel Munoz-Rodriguez, a 44-year-old Mexican national, has been sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas. The conspiracy, which operated in the Metroplex area, distributed at least 15 kilograms of methamphetamine. Munoz-Rodriguez, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy…
Gary Rooster Ransom, Drug Distribution, Mississippi 2026
⏱ 2 min read A massive drug bust went down in Northern Mississippi, with eight individuals arrested for their roles in a sprawling drug distribution operation. The suspects, including Gary ‘Rooster’ Ransom, Daniel Baker, Madeline Tonos, Patrick Smith, Valerie Ingram, Joshua Fulton, Londyn Todd, and Merrick Smith, were taken into custody on March 25, 2026,…
