California Man Sentenced to 114 Months in Prison for Methamphetamine Trafficking

CAMDEN, N.J. – A California man was sentenced today to 114 months in prison for his role in a narcotics conspiracy involving approximately 1.9 kilograms of a substance containing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Aaron Joseph, 41, of Los Angeles, California, previously pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Renée Marie Bumb to an information charging conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Chief Judge Bumb imposed the sentence today in Camden federal court.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:

From October 2020 through July 2022, Joseph participated in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Joseph shipped packages from California to conspirators located in Camden County, New Jersey, who then distributed the methamphetamine in southern New Jersey. Joseph received payment via Cash App from a conspirator for the shipments. On Feb. 14, 2022, Joseph shipped a package containing 5,100 pills from California to New Jersey. The pills contained methamphetamine and weighed approximately 1.9 kilograms.

In addition to the prison term, Chief Judge Bumb sentenced Joseph to six years of supervised release.

U.S. Attorney Sellinger credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Acting Special Agent in Charge Nelson I. Delgado in Newark; special agents of Homeland Security Investigations Newark, under the direction of Acting Special Agent in Charge Spiros Karabinas; postal inspectors of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, under the direction of Inspector in Charge Christopher A. Nielsen, Philadelphia Division, and the New Jersey State Police, under the direction of Col. Patrick J. Callahan, with the investigation leading to the sentencing.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph McFarlane of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Camden.