FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	CONTACT: Lauren Horwood
September 7, 2011	PHONE: (916) 554-2706
www.usdoj.gov/usao/cae	usacae.edcapress@usdoj.gov
Docket #: 2:08-cr-0212 LKK

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that today United States District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton sentenced Miguel Vasquez, 39, formerly of Cameron Park, to 14 ½ years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and for money laundering.

According to court documents, Vasquez was the lead defendant in a long-term investigation. Through information gathered in court-authorized telephone wiretaps, Vasquez was determined to be a major source of supply of methamphetamine in the Sacramento area and to persons shipping and selling significant quantities of methamphetamine to the Midwest and Hawaii. On April 24, 2008, agents searched a car registered to Vasquez and found 3½ pounds of crystal methamphetamine. In a search of Vasquez's house, agents found $118,000 in a metal safe and three firearms (including an assault rifle). In total, Vasquez forfeited a total of more than $700,000, which funds were mostly taken from seized bank accounts, two parcels of land, and two vehicles.

Vasquez is the latest defendant sentenced in this case. Two defendants have yet to be sentenced. The remaining defendants and their sentences are as follows:

SENTENCING DATE	DEFENDANT	SENTENCE
12/8/2009	Damone Deggins Block, 36	48 months
9/22/2009	Danny Nebel, 33	84 months
8/4/2009	Frank Blue, 23	36 months
8/4/2009	Justin Daniel Witt, 33	120 months
6/23/2009	Juan Vega Jr., 31	144 months
6/9/2009	Osiel Betancur, 38	96 months
3/24/2009	Dalana Vaughn, 32	63 months
3/3/2009	Michael Ray Epps Jr., 30	96 months
1/13/2009	Toby Lamar Vann, 44	48 months
1/6/2009	Cameron Jon Craven, 43	96 months
1/6/2009	Randall Charles Ortiz, 34	48 months
1/6/2009	Willie Leroy Thomas II, 40	84 months
11/25/2008	Eugene Margarito Ortega, 34	96 months
11/12/2008	Salvador Jesus Ramirez, 35	41 months
11/4/2008	Jason Leroy Bracy, 39	48 months
10/15/2008	Robert Louis Scott, 59	Time served

This investigation was part of the U.S. Department of Justice's Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) program that targets large-scale drug traffickers. OCDETF brings together the resources of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to investigate cases that are then prosecuted by U.S. Attorneys Offices across the country.

This case was the product of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department, and the Sacramento Police Department. U.S. Attorneys Mary Grad and Richard Bender prosecuted the case.

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