Isaias Aroldo Contreras, a 26-year-old from Sacramento, has been sentenced to five years in prison for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. The sentencing was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith and handed down by U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb.
Court documents reveal that on January 5, 2023, law enforcement executed a search warrant at Contreras’s home, seizing nearly 1,000 fentanyl-laced pills resembling oxycodone “M-30” pills. Additionally, authorities confiscated a loaded Glock 9 mm pistol, $31,154 in cash, a money counter, and several pieces of custom diamond jewelry including a Rolex watch adorned with full-cut diamonds.
Messages found on Contreras’s cellphone indicated communications between him and drug suppliers and customers dating from March 2020 to December 2022. These messages detailed the purchase and sale of counterfeit M-30 pills in quantities ranging from hundreds to thousands of pills as well as cocaine in kilogram amounts.
In addition to his prison sentence, Contreras was ordered to forfeit $31,154 in cash and various items of jewelry valued at over $50,000 to the government.
The investigation was conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration with assistance from Homeland Security Investigations and the Sacramento Area Intelligence/Narcotics Task Force (SAINT). Assistant U.S. Attorney David W. Spencer prosecuted the case.
This case falls under the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) initiative which aims to identify and dismantle high-level criminal organizations posing threats within the United States through an intelligence-driven approach involving multiple agencies.
For more information about OCDETF efforts visit Justice.gov/OCDETF.
