Texas Resident Sentenced For Possession Of Cocaine With Intent To Distribute

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Edgar Rodriguez, age 35, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison for Possession of Cocaine with Intent to Distribute.

The charges arose from a traffic stop initiated by a Trooper with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and assisted by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

On June 21, 2022, Rodriguez pleaded guilty to Possession of Cocaine with Intent to Distribute.  At the plea hearing, Rodriguez admitted that on May 22, 2021, he was driving eastbound on I-40 through Okfuskee County in possession of 16 kilograms of cocaine which he intended to distribute.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, Chief Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearings in Muskogee.  Rodriguez will remain in custody of the U.S. Marshal pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.