Date: 07-12-2018

Case Style:

United States of America v. Cesar Daleo

Case Number: 17-cr-3041

Judge: Gonzalo Curiel

Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of California (San Diego County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: Sherri Walker Hobson

Defendant's Attorney: Carson Porter Baucher and John C Ellis, Jr.

Description:

San Diego, CA - Former Border Patrol Agent Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute 4ANPP Used in the Manufacturing of Fentanyl

Former U.S. Border Patrol Agent Cesar Daleo pleaded guilty in federal court today to drug charges, admitting that he conspired to distribute the precursor chemical known as “4ANPP,” the primary ingredient for manufacturing deadly fentanyl.

Daleo was arrested on August 29, 2017, while trying to drive into Mexico with a package that he believed contained 4ANPP (4-anilino-N-phenethyl-4-piperidine), a Schedule II Controlled Substance. According to court records, Daleo had just picked up the package, shipped from China, at a post office box in San Ysidro. He had previously picked up 13 other packages from the same post office box.

Unbeknownst to Daleo, a few weeks earlier on August 11, 2017, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent stationed at Los Angeles International Airport had intercepted a package from China and discovered it contained 4ANPP. Homeland Security Investigations agents then replaced the 4ANPP with a harmless substance and waited for someone to pick it up at its destination in San Ysidro, California. When Daleo did so, and then headed to Mexico, he was intercepted by law enforcement before crossing the border. Daleo admitted today in court that there was an agreement to distribute 4ANPP and that he joined the agreement knowing its purpose and intending to help accomplish that purpose.

Daleo admitted in his plea agreement that, starting at least in December of 2016, he picked up multiple parcels at the mail box facility in San Ysidro. After picking up these parcels, which were shipped from China, Daleo was paid to transport the parcels to Mexico.

He also admitted that some of the parcels contained a substance that could be used to manufacture more illegal drugs. One kilogram of precursor 4ANPP was seized that day - enough to manufacture approximately 25 kilograms of fentanyl in a Mexican drug lab.

Daleo is scheduled to be sentenced before U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel on September 28, 2018, at 8:30 a.m.

Daleo also faces federal charges in a second case, 18cr2968. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in April for conspiring to illegally smuggle sea cucumbers and sea horses protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species into the United States from Mexico.” The next hearing is set for July 27, 2018, at 11:30 am.

DEFENDANT Case Number 17-cr-3041

Cesar Daleo Age: 47 San Ysidro

SUMMARY OF CHARGES

Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances, 4ANPP – Title 21, U.S.C., Section 841 and 846

Maximum penalty: Twenty years in prison and $500,000 fine

AGENCY

Homeland Security Investigations

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Postal Inspection Service

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Outcome: 07/12/2018 40 CONSENT TO RULE 11 PLEA before Magistrate Judge Jill L. Burkhardt by Cesar Daleo. (dlg) (Entered: 07/12/2018)
07/12/2018 41 PLEA AGREEMENT as to Cesar Daleo (dlg) (Entered: 07/12/2018)
07/12/2018 42 SUPERSEDING INFORMATION as to Cesar Daleo (1) count(s) 1s. (cxl) (dsn) (Entered: 07/12/2018)
07/12/2018 43 WAIVER OF INDICTMENT by Cesar Daleo (cxl) (dsn) (Entered: 07/12/2018)
07/12/2018 44 Minute Entry for proceedings held before Magistrate Judge Jill L. Burkhardt: Arraignment on Superseding Information as to Cesar Daleo (1) Count 1s held on 7/12/2018. Guilty plea tentered. Change of Plea Hearing as to Cesar Daleo held on 7/12/2018. Plea Tendered by Cesar Daleo Guilty on counts 1 of the Superseding Information. Consent, Findings and Plea agreement filed. Excludable(s) started as to Cesar Daleo: 7/12/2018 - 9/28/2018. PSR Ordered. Sentence With PSR set for 9/28/2018 08:30 AM before Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel. All other hearings vacated and motions withdrawn. (CD# 7/12/2018 JLB18 9:16 - 9:28). (Plaintiff Attorney Mark Conover, S/A AUSA). (Defendant Attorney Carson Baucher, FD). (cxl) (Entered: 07/12/2018)
07/12/2018 45 FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATION of the Magistrate Judge upon a Tendered Plea of Guilty as to Cesar Daleo: Recommending that the district judge accept the defendant's plea of guilty.. Signed by Magistrate Judge Jill L. Burkhardt on 7/12/2018. (cxl) (Entered: 07/12/2018)

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