El Paso Conspirators Plead Guilty To Delivering 20 Kilograms Of Mexican Cocaine To Baldwin Park

Orlando, Florida – United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe announces that Israel Trevino (29, El Paso, TX) today pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute cocaine. Trevino’s co-conspirator, Lesly Janeth Ibarra (26, El Paso, Texas), pleaded guilty to her role in the conspiracy on February 2, 2025. Trevino and Ibarra each face a minimum of 10 years, up to life, in federal prison. Ibarra is subject to deportation after she serves her federal prison sentence. Ibarra’s sentencing is scheduled for May 28, 2025. Trevino’s sentencing date has not yet been set.

According to the plea agreement, on October 17, 2022, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) received information that conspirators James Mirabal and Jonathan Beharry were arranging to receive a delivery of 20 kilograms of cocaine, each of which Beharry had planned to sell for $20,000. DEA agents surveilled Beharry as he met with an individual in a parking lot driving a truck with a Texas license plate, driven by Trevino with Ibarra in the passenger seat. Trevino delivered a suitcase to Beharry containing the $400,000 worth of cocaine: 

As DEA continued the investigation, Beharry and Mirabal complained that Trevino and Ibarra wanted them to return the suitcase. After Beharry unloaded the 20 kilograms of cocaine in his Baldwin Park apartment, he returned to the parking lot and returned the suitcase to Ibarra who put it in the back of their rental truck.   

Beharry’s apartment was later searched and found to contain the 20 kilograms of cocaine Trevino and Ibarra had delivered. When the DEA later searched Ibarra and Trevino’s rental house, they recovered $14,020 of the $20,000 they earned from driving the cocaine to Orlando. Agents also located the suitcase they had used in the back of the truck.   

In addition, communications records showed Ibarra was in regular communication with the Mexican supplier of the cocaine during this trip and at least one prior delivery to Orlando.   

Mirabal and Beharry were sentenced to 15 years and 9 years, respectively, in 2023 for their roles working with Trevino and Ibarra.

This case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, with assistance from the Florida Highway Patrol. It is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Dana E. Hill.

This case was part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation. OCDETF identifies, disrupts, and dismantles the highest-level criminal organizations that threaten the United States using a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency approach. Additional information about the OCDETF Program can be found at www.justice.gov/OCDETF.