In a federal courtroom, Judge William F. Jung has meted out prison sentences to three individuals involved in a significant drug trafficking ring that spanned from California to the Middle District of Florida, according to a Department of Justice press release. The sentencing follows a chain of investigations and arrests that began with Colin Zirpoli, who received 30 months for his part in a methamphetamine distribution operation.
The DEA’s initial probe into Zirpoli eventually led to Elizabeth Poff, then to her supplier Tony Marsh and subsequently to Marsh’s supplier Hopeton Goslin, resulting in the seizure of over 45 kilograms of methamphetamine from Goslin’s properties, all of whom have pled guilty; Goslin has been sentenced to 20 years, Marsh received a 10-year term, and Poff was already sentenced to 37 months before these recent developments.
In September 2025, a federal jury found Omar Pitter and Ciarra Guss guilty of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine after an investigation linked Pitter in San Diego, Goslin’s source, to a large-scale narcotics distribution network that sent cocaine and methamphetamine to the east coast using shipping services since 2023, testimony at the trial revealed the shipped narcotics weighed in at 34 kilograms of cocaine and 697 pounds of methamphetamine…