Alfredo Rodriguez-Gonzalez, a 27-year-old Mexican national previously deported from the United States, was sentenced to 235 months in federal prison for his involvement in an international fentanyl trafficking operation. The sentencing took place in U.S. District Court and was announced by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.
Rodriguez-Gonzalez, also known as “Alacran,” pleaded guilty on October 15, 2025, to conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl after a prior conviction for a serious drug felony. In addition to the prison term, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered him to serve ten years of supervised release.
“Rodriguez-Gonzalez, a previously deported Mexican national, poisoned our communities with large quantities of fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills. The impetus for the investigation was the overdose death of Diamond Lynch, a young mother in D.C.,” said U.S. Attorney Pirro.
“Law enforcement followed the evidence and uncovered a vast network of fentanyl traffickers that led to seizing more than 450,000 fentanyl pills, 1.5 kilograms of fentanyl powder, and 30 firearms." U.S. Attorney Pirro continued. "Now this illegal alien can take the next 19 years to enjoy his new view of the America he worked so hard to infiltrate and undermine, from an American prison.”
Rodriguez-Gonzalez was among 24 individuals arrested in connection with the conspiracy across multiple locations including Washington D.C., Virginia, Maryland, San Diego, and Los Angeles. According to court documents, he supplied Los Angeles-area distributors with large quantities of counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl from Mexico. He used social media platforms such as Instagram to coordinate shipments containing thousands of counterfeit “M-30” pills.
Previously convicted in Utah for distributing methamphetamine and deported after serving a sentence there, Rodriguez-Gonzalez re-entered the United States illegally and participated in distributing approximately 36 kilograms of illegal fentanyl between December 2021 and April 2024 before being arrested.
The investigation began following the overdose death of Diamond Lynch in Southeast D.C., which led law enforcement agencies to uncover an extensive trafficking network moving fentanyl from Mexico through Los Angeles into Washington D.C. Authorities seized over 450,000 pills containing fentanyl along with other drugs and firearms during their investigation.
The case resulted from collaboration among several agencies including the DEA Washington Division, U.S. Postal Inspection Service Washington Division, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF), DEA field offices in California cities, FBI’s Washington Field Office, Charles County Sheriff’s Office in Maryland as well as support from various U.S. Attorney’s Offices across different districts.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Matthew W. Kinskey, Solomon S. Eppel, and Iris Y. McCranie prosecuted the case within the Violent Crime and Narcotics Trafficking Section.
Other defendants involved received sentences ranging from several years up to over a decade for their roles in distributing significant amounts of fentanyl throughout multiple states.
