Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Eliseo Barrera-Peraza, 50, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Barrera-Peraza to 78 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, he will begin a 5-year term of supervised release. Barrera-Peraza will be deported by U.S. immigration authorities when he completes his sentence to imprisonment.
On Nov. 10, 2020, a DEA undercover agent posing as a customer contacted a known Mexico-based narcotics source of supply to order for purchase one pound of methamphetamine. The agent and the Mexican source of supply agreed that a local party would meet the customer at a business in Omaha to complete the sale and agreed that the customer would pay $4,300 for the pound. As planned, they met and completed the transaction on Nov. 17, 2020.
Investigators were subsequently able to identify Barrera-Peraza as the person who met and provided the methamphetamine to the undercover agent. Investigators also linked Barrera-Peraza to a prior purchase of methamphetamine on August 7, 2019, by an undercover Omaha Police Department officer. Barrera-Peraza delivered the methamphetamine in the earlier case just as he did in November 2020.
This case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Omaha Field Division, Omaha Police Department and Nebraska State Patrol.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
