A Mexican national living illegally in the United States was sentenced on March 31 to five years in federal prison for trafficking methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Texas, according to U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs.
Sergio Uriel Munoz-Rodriguez, 44, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine. He received a sentence of 60 months from U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant, III.
Court records show that federal agents identified Munoz-Rodriguez during a drug trafficking investigation in the Metroplex area in 2020. Munoz-Rodriguez admitted involvement in a conspiracy that distributed at least 15 kilograms of methamphetamine within the district and was found to be a citizen of Mexico who is illegally present in the country.
The case falls under the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative established by Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. The HSTF is described as "a whole-of-government partnership dedicated to eliminating criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States and abroad." The task force places special emphasis on investigating crimes involving children and uses all available tools "to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the United States."
The Drug Enforcement Administration led the investigation into this case, which was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew T. Johnson.
