United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Francisco Carrillo-Noriega, 26, was sentenced January 4, 2021, in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and distribution of methamphetamine. Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Carrillo-Noriega to 60 months in the Bureau of Prisons. There is no parole in the federal system. Carrillo-Noriega was also sentenced to a 4-year term of supervised release. Carrillo-Noriega is a citizen of Mexico and will be deported upon completion of his prison term.
Beginning in January 2018, Carrillo-Noriega distributed cocaine to a confidential informant in Omaha on multiple occasions. Carrillo-Noriega also sold a confidential informant methamphetamine. On Aug. 28, 2019, law enforcement executed a search warrant at Carrillo-Noriega’s Council Bluffs, Iowa, home and recovered an AR-15 rifle, firearm magazines, and ammunition.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Omaha Police Department.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
