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Date: 05-17-2022

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United States of America v. Antonio Ochoa Mejia

Case Number: 1:19-cr-00152-DAD-BAM

Judge: Dale A. Drozd

Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of California (Fresno County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office

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Description: Fresno, California criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Antonio Ochoa Mejia, 50, a Mexican national residing in Hughson, and co-defendant Jorge Armando Gonzalez Martinez, 41, a Mexican national residing in Hughson, was previously sentenced to four years and six months in prison and co-defendant Ramon Ortega, 36, a Mexican national residing in Willows, was sentenced to three years and two months in prison.

On April 18, 2019, Mejia and Ortega sold 1 kilogram of methamphetamine for $4,500 during an undercover transaction in Empire. On May 14, 2019, Mejia sold 2 kilograms of methamphetamine during an undercover transaction in Ceres. On May 30, 2019, Mejia and Martinez were arrested in Ceres after attempting to deliver 10 kilograms of methamphetamine during an undercover transaction.

This case was the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the San Joaquin Metropolitan Narcotics Task Force. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jessica A. Massey prosecuted the case.

Mejia and Ortega are currently in federal custody. Martinez has been ordered to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on July 7, 2022.

21 USC 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(A), and 846 - Conspiracy to Distribute and to Possess with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance
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Outcome: CUSTODY: 121 MONTHS; $100.00 SPECIAL ASSESSMENT; FINE WAIVED; 36 MONTHS SUPERVISED RELEASE; BOP RECOMMENDATION LOMPOC, CA OR MENDOTA, CA

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