Thai Man Sentenced for Drug Trafficking and Firearm Crimes

Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Kong Xiong, of Pak Chom, Thailand, was sentenced on December 20, 2022 by Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., for distributing marijuana and selling firearms.  Xiong received a sentence of 90 months’ imprisonment with a five-year term of supervised release to follow.  There is no parole in the federal system.

On March 18, 2021, Xiong met with a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms confidential informant in Kansas City, Kansas, and purchased five pounds of marijuana and a firearm. On April 12, 2021, an ATF confidential informant made arrangements with Vue Fang to purchase marijuana and a firearm.  Fang and Xiong arrived and met with the confidential informant in Omaha, Nebraska.  While the confidential informant met with Fang to get the firearm, Xiong put three pounds of marijuana into the confidential informant’s car. 

This effort is part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) operation. 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 https://www.justice.gov/OCDETF.

This case was investigated by the ATF and the Omaha Police Department.