Rosario Zamora Rojo, a 41-year-old resident of Sacramento, was sentenced to nine years in prison for his involvement in drug trafficking. U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd delivered the sentence on Thursday, as announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Kimberly A. Sanchez.
Court documents revealed that Zamora Rojo played a key role in supplying a drug trafficking organization with fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills from Mexico between May 2019 and January 2021. In November 2020, he provided methamphetamine to co-defendant Jose Lopez-Zamora, which law enforcement later seized. Following this transaction, Zamora Rojo relocated to Mexico and continued supplying the organization with fentanyl-laced pills and access to his storage unit in Sacramento, where over 13,000 pills were seized along with other drugs and firearms.
Fourteen other co-defendants have pleaded guilty in connection with this case, with ten already sentenced to varying prison terms. Sentencing for others involved is scheduled throughout the remainder of 2025.
The investigation was conducted by multiple agencies including the Drug Enforcement Administration and several local police departments. The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs collaborated with Mexican authorities for the extradition of Luis Lopez Zamora.
Assistant U.S. Attorney David W. Spencer is handling the prosecution under the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), which aims to dismantle high-level criminal organizations threatening the United States.
