A massive 508.9 grams of PCP—nearly 1.12 pounds—hit the streets of Albuquerque when Taylor Overton Foster, 28, of White Plains, N.Y., stepped off the Amtrak train on February 8, 2017. That haul, enough to fuel hundreds of violent, hallucinogenic episodes, was ripped from his backpack by DEA agents at the station during a targeted interdiction. Foster didn’t make it two steps before he was cuffed, the acrid stench of leaking PCP oozing from a bottle stuffed in his bag.
Foster was charged the same day with possession of phencyclidine with intent to distribute in Bernalillo County, N.M., and formally indicted on February 28, 2017. The federal system moved fast—no jury trial, no drawn-out courtroom drama. On July 14, 2017, Foster stood in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque and admitted guilt, confessing he knowingly transported the powerful dissociative drug across state lines for sale.
He didn’t deny it. He couldn’t. DEA agents caught the liquid drug seeping from a compromised container inside his backpack—a damning, stinking trail leading straight to his hands. PCP, known to trigger psychosis, paranoia, and extreme violence, is not a casual substance. Distributing it is a direct assault on community safety, and federal prosecutors treated it as such.
Today, Foster was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison—nearly four years behind bars—followed by three years of supervised release. The hammer came down in the very courthouse where he admitted guilt, a full accounting of his crime delivered with cold precision by Assistant U.S. Attorney Eva Fontanez, who prosecuted the case.
The investigation was led by the DEA’s Albuquerque District Office, a unit that operates on the front lines of the Southwest’s drug war. Their interdiction team monitors rail, road, and air routes used by traffickers like Foster—individuals brought in from out of state to move high-value, high-risk narcotics through the city’s transportation hubs.
Taylor Overton Foster, 28, of White Plains, N.Y., now heads to federal prison with a felony conviction for possession of PCP with intent to distribute. His release date is years away, but the damage of what he tried to unleash in Albuquerque—volatile, dangerous, and invisible until it erupts—won’t be so easily contained.
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Key Facts
- State: New Mexico
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Drug Trafficking
- Source: Official Source ↗
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