A Mexican national who ran a sprawling methamphetamine pipeline across the Dallas–Fort Worth area will spend the next four decades in federal prison. Raymundo Bernal Saucedo, 33, was sentenced to 480 months last Wednesday after pleading guilty in October 2024.
Bernal admitted to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and aiding and abetting, and U.S. District Judge Ada E. Brown handed down the 480-month term, according to The Dallas Express. Local coverage has underscored both the size of the haul and how tightly federal agencies worked together to shut the operation down.
Inside the DFW drug pipeline, according to investigators
In a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas, Homeland Security Task Force agents said they first set up a controlled buy of two kilograms of meth from an Arlington-area distribution cell. That deal led to a search warrant at a storage unit, where agents reported seizing roughly 77 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, multiple firearms and a drug ledger.
Court records state that members of the cell converted liquid meth into crystal form for sale. Prosecutors said Bernal personally bought pots, chemicals and other supplies, and that he took part in the actual “cooking” of the drug. Wiretaps also allegedly linked him to smuggling contraband into jails in Tennessee…