Mexican Citizen Sentenced for Drug Trafficking Crime

United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Ivan Avalos Espinoza, 26, of Mexico, was sentenced on February 6, 2023, in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for his participation in a methamphetamine conspiracy.  United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Avalos Espinoza to 108 months of imprisonment.  There is no parole in the federal system.  After his release from prison, he will begin a three-year term of supervised release.

On August 20, 2021, DEA agents in Omaha seized a package at a shipping store addressed to an Omaha residence.  The package contained approximately 4,097 grams of methamphetamine.  Later that day, a DEA agent drove to the residence and placed the package at the gate.  Avalos Espinoza later took the package and returned to the residence.  Agents executed a search warrant of the residence and located Avalos Espinoza and the package containing the methamphetamine.  Digital records from Avalos Espinoza’s cell phone provided evidence relating to the drug conspiracy.

This case was investigated primarily by the Drug Enforcement Administration.