Two men have been sentenced to federal prison for mailing fentanyl-laced pills disguised as prescription medication to Atlanta, the Department of Justice announced.
According to the DOJ, Northern District of Georgia, Walter Alexander Argueta-Aguilar, 21, an undocumented immigrant from Sonsonate, El Salvador, was sentenced to five years in prison and will face deportation, while Jorge Manuel Zamora Cano, 23, of Mesa, Ariz., received a ten-year sentence and five years of supervised release.
“Argueta-Aguilar and Cano profited from the opioid epidemic and endangered thousands of lives by trafficking fentanyl-laced pills resembling actual medicine,” said U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg.
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The investigation began in February 2024 when federal agents started looking into Argueta-Aguilar, who was living in Norcross, for receiving mail parcels containing counterfeit pills with the imprint M30, a common mark on legitimate oxycodone tablets…