Bay City News
A Stockton man and two of his co-defendants from Sacramento pleaded guilty last week to several drug trafficking and weapons charges as part of an investigation into organized crime in the area, U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert announced.
Martin Cervantes Vasquez, 49, pleaded guilty Thursday to a fentanyl pill trafficking conspiracy along with Sacramento man Alberto Gonzalez Salgado, 45. Vasquez also pleaded guilty to possession with intent to sell methamphetamine. Alberto Salgado pleaded guilty to two counts of heroin distribution, cultivating more than 100 cannabis plants, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug crime.
A third Sacramento man, Isaiah Alberto Salgado, pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered short-barrel rifle.
According to court documents, Alberto Salgado sold heroin and fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills to a confidential source on multiple occasions in 2019 and 2020. Cervantes supplied fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills to Alberto Salgado and also possessed more than a kilogram of heroin and 500 grams of methamphetamine on the day of his arrest on Oct. 8, 2020.