Omaha Man Sentenced for Distributing Methamphetamine for the Second Time

Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Juan Padilla-Miranda, 47, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, for distributing methamphetamine.  United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Padilla-Miranda to imprisonment for a term of 120 months. There is no parole in the federal system.  After his release from prison, he will begin an 8-year term of supervised release. 

Investigators obtained more than 150 grams of methamphetamine from Padilla-Miranda over the course of three controlled purchase operations.  Padilla-Miranda drove to a McDonald’s restaurant parking lot from his workplace to distribute the first amount of methamphetamine on July 3, 2019. The second purchase occurred in his workplace parking lot on September 3, 2019, and the final one was completed at a Baker’s grocery store parking lot.  

Padilla-Miranda has a prior serious drug felony conviction which resulted in higher penalties at today’s sentencing.  In December 3, 2007, he was convicted for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska and was sentenced to 57 months’ imprisonment.

Padilla-Miranda’s request to self-surrender to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons was denied and he was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals at the conclusion of the sentencing hearing today.

This case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration.