Mexican National Sentenced to 46 Months’ Imprisonment for Methamphetamine Charge

Acting United States Attorney Matthew R. Molsen announced that Rodrigo Marrufo-Pineda, 34, of Zitacuaro, Michoacan, Mexico, was sentenced on February 14, 2025, in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Chief United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Marrufo-Pineda to 46 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After completing his term of imprisonment, Marrufo-Pineda will be subject to deportation to Mexico as he is not a United States citizen.

Marrufo-Pineda was charged as a result of his involvement with a Mexico Source of Supply (SOS) of meth who supplies the Omaha and Council Bluffs, Iowa areas. Marrufo-Pineda was a local courier who was distributing the SOS’s meth in Nebraska and Iowa.

On January 25, 2024, special agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation utilized a cooperating witness who purchased approximately one pound of meth from Marrufo-Pineda at an Omaha location. At the time of Marrufo-Pineda’s arrest, he gave a post-arrest statement admitting to distributing pound quantities of meth in the Omaha area.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.