The Brief
- A federal jury in Chicago convicted a 24-year-old California man of trafficking methamphetamine from California to Illinois on Sept. 25, 2026.
- The man, Hugo Steven De La Cruz Corona, traveled to Chicago in October 2020 to pick up two parcels of meth shipped through the U.S. Postal Service, but law enforcement had already intercepted them.
- He faces up to 20 years in federal prison and is set to be sentenced Jan. 20, 2027.
CHICAGO – A 24-year-old man from California was found guilty by a federal jury in Chicago on Sept. 25, 2026 of trafficking methamphetamine from California to Illinois for a Los Angeles-based drug trafficking organization.
California man found guilty of trafficking meth to Illinois
The backstory:
The 24-year-old was identified as Hugo Steven De La Cruz Corona, who was working on behalf of a Los Angeles-based drug trafficking organization that shipped narcotics across the country using the U.S. Postal Service, according to prosecutors.
In October 2020, he traveled to Chicago to pick up two parcels containing multi-pound quantities of meth that the organization had shipped from California.…