SHERMAN, Texas – A 41-year-old Mexican national who was living in Irving has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for laundering money connected to a drug trafficking organization that distributed methamphetamine, cocaine and fentanyl.
Jose Guadalupe Lopez-Arana pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering and aiding and abetting. U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant sentenced him Aug. 27.
According to federal prosecutors, investigators identified Lopez-Arana in 2023 while investigating a drug trafficking conspiracy. Authorities said he was living unlawfully in the United States in Irving’s 75061 ZIP code at the time…