Mexican Man Sentenced for Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy and Distributing Methamphetamine

United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Francisco Carrillo-Noriega, 26, was sentenced January 4, 2021, in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and distribution of methamphetamine.  Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Carrillo-Noriega to 60 months in the Bureau of Prisons. There is no parole in the federal system.  Carrillo-Noriega was also sentenced to a 4-year term of supervised release.  Carrillo-Noriega is a citizen of Mexico and will be deported upon completion of his prison term.

Beginning in January 2018, Carrillo-Noriega distributed cocaine to a confidential informant in Omaha on multiple occasions.  Carrillo-Noriega also sold a confidential informant methamphetamine.  On August 28, 2019, law enforcement executed a search warrant at Carrillo-Noriega’s Council Bluffs, Iowa, home and recovered an AR-15 rifle, firearm magazines, and ammunition.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Omaha Police Department.