August 10, 2025 – Jose Manuel Ontiveros Verdugo, 40, of Stockton, was sentenced on Monday, August 4 by U.S. District Judge
Dale A. Drozd to 16 years in prison for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and Jorge Omar Arredondo-Garcia, 47, of Lodi, pleaded guilty on Monday, August 4 to the same offense, Acting U.S. Attorney Kimberly A. Sanchez announced.
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According to court documents, between July 2019 and December 2019, Verdugo and Arredondo-Garcia conspired with their co-defendants and others to distribute methamphetamine both in Stockton and throughout the country. During the investigation, an undercover source bought a total of 11 pounds of methamphetamine and a half pound of heroin from this drug trafficking organization. Law enforcement interdicted the group’s shipments of 50 pounds of methamphetamine destined for Nebraska, as well as a 21‑pound shipment destined for Pennsylvania…