A Guatemalan national was sentenced on April 7 to more than 27 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy charges involving the manufacture and distribution of cocaine, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs.
Crysthian Omar Escobar Angel, age 48, was extradited from Guatemala to the United States in January of 2024 and pleaded guilty in June of 2025. He received a sentence of 327 months from U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant in the Eastern District of Texas.
Court records show that Escobar Angel managed part of a large-scale drug trafficking organization operating across Central and North America since at least 2015. The group used complex infrastructure to move multi-ton quantities of cocaine from Colombia through Central America into the United States for further distribution. In one instance cited during proceedings, Escobar Angel sent a text message referencing threats of violence: “Let me talk with someone I am just going to need some specifics for tomorrow and we will throw some poison on him…. [l]eave that [expletive] to me…. Let’s [expletive] him up….”
Escobar Angel was indicted in the Eastern District of Texas in 2019 as part of an investigation led by federal agents into this drug trafficking network.
The case is part of the Homeland Security Task Force initiative established by Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. The initiative is described as a whole-of-government partnership aimed at dismantling criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling rings both inside and outside U.S. borders. Special focus is placed on crimes involving children and removing violent criminal aliens from the country.
The Drug Enforcement Administration investigated this case.
