A massive cross-country drug pipeline that funneled hundreds of pounds of narcotics from Southern California to Florida has officially been dismantled, resulting in a prison sentence that will keep its mastermind away for a very long time.
Omar Pitter, a 45-year-old San Diego man, was handed a sentence of 33 years and four months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge William F. Jung. The decision comes after a federal jury found Pitter guilty of orchestrating a sophisticated operation that involved shipping staggering amounts of methamphetamine and laundering the cash that poured in.
The case, announced by U.S. Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe, reads like a script for a crime drama. It all started back in February 2024 when the DEA began pulling at a single thread: a local dealer named Colin Zirpoli. By following the trail upward through a chain of suppliers—Elizabeth Poff, Tony Marsh, and Hopeton Goslin—investigators eventually hit the jackpot…