Sauce Factory co-founder pleads guilty in Houston federal drug case

One of the founders of the Sauce Factory, the Houston-born record label with a notorious criminal reputation, has pleaded guilty to a federal drug trafficking charge.

Antonio Hopkins-Yezeno, 36, of Houston, on Thursday admitted to selling 1,700 grams of marijuana and more than 1,000 grams of methamphetamine to undercover police officers in a series of controlled buys in 2021. He also admitted to carrying nearly 1,200 grams of pills containing methamphetamine, which police discovered in a traffic stop in August 2021.

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