(FOX40.COM) — A man from Mexico pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin on Thursday.Video above: Tuolumne County family delivers emotional statements in area’s first fentanyl-related murder sentencing
Alberto Ojeda Lopez, 69, of Mexico, conspired with his wife and daughter, co-defendants Maria Medina Silvas, 66, of Mexico and Alecsa Ojeda de Orgel, 44, of Stockton, to distribute heroin in and around Stockton, according to the United States Attorney’s Office.
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Medina Silvas and Ojeda Lopez sold an ounce of heroin to an undercover officer in September 2022. In August 2023, they sold a kilogram of heroin and the following day, law enforcement seized 2 kilograms of heroin from Ojeda Lopez’s and Medina Silvas’s vehicle.
2.8 kilograms of fentanyl, 2 kilograms of heroin, almost a half kilogram of methamphetamine, and $83,119 in cash drug proceeds were found during a search of Ojeda de Orgel’s residence, the DA’s office said…