A Nebraska man has been sentenced in federal court for distributing a fentanyl analogue. Larry D. Moss, 22, of Omaha, received a sentence of 125 months in prison on July 23, 2025. United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher ordered that Moss’s federal sentence be served consecutively to his current state sentence at the state penitentiary. There is no parole in the federal system. After completing his prison term, Moss will serve five years of supervised release.
According to information presented in court, on September 13, 2023, special agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) learned from a confidential source that Moss and an associate had obtained approximately 1,500 fentanyl pills. Agents arranged for a controlled purchase of about 200 “M30” fentanyl pills from Moss at his Omaha home for $2,000. The pills sold by Moss were found to contain a fentanyl analogue.
Further investigation led Drug Enforcement Administration task force officers (TFOs) to intercept a suspicious package sent from Laveen, Arizona to a Bellevue residence on March 27, 2024. After obtaining a search warrant for the package, TFOs discovered it contained roughly 2,000 “M30” fentanyl pills. Officers delivered the package to its destination where Moss picked it up before fleeing law enforcement during an attempted stop. During his escape—driving onto sidewalks and through a construction site—he discarded the package out the window. Officers also recovered a Sig Sauer P250 handgun along his route.
“This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone,” said U.S. Attorney Lesley A. Woods in announcing the sentence. “On May 26, 2021, the department launched a violent crime reduction strategy strengthening PSN based on these core principles: fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results.”
The investigation involved cooperation among multiple agencies including ATF, DEA, as well as police departments in Omaha and Bellevue.
