Bay City News
A Stockton man was sentenced this week to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $42,066 for conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl and the distribution of fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbertannounced.
Jose Cruz Ivan Aispuro, 39, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez.
Prosecutors said Aispuro and co-defendant Frank Guzman of Stockton acted together between November 2018 and December 2019 to distribute and possess with an intent to distribute at least one kilogram of heroin and at least 400 grams of counterfeit pharmaceutical pills that contained fentanyl.
Aispuro had supplied heroin that his co-defendant sold to an undercover agent as well as another person on three separate occasions.
He also supplied 500 counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl that Guzman also sold to the undercover agent.
Court documents stated that approximately 4.5kilograms of heroin and $42,066 in cash were seized from Aispuro’s residence.
At Guzman’s residence there were about 10,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl and 2.8 kilograms of heroin.