FORT WAYNE-Hector Castaneda, age 60, of Michoacan, Mexico, was sentenced by United States District Courtroom Choose Holly A. Brady on his plea of responsible to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 5 or extra kilograms of cocaine, introduced United States Lawyer Clifford D. Johnson.
Castaneda was sentenced to 292 months in jail adopted by 5 years of supervised launch.
In line with paperwork on this case and in associated instances, from March of 2010 by way of April of 2011, Castaneda, also referred to as “El Pariente” conspired to distribute many kilograms of cocaine from Mexico into Allen County, Indiana, and elsewhere. Castaneda was indicted in 2012, and he remained a fugitive in Mexico till he was arrested in 2017.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Fort Wayne Protected Streets Gang Activity Power, with the members being the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Indiana State Police, the Allen County Sheriff’s Division, and the Fort Wayne Police Division. Different regulation enforcement businesses offering help have been the Allen County Drug Activity Power, the New Haven Police Division, and the San Bernardino County, California, Police Division. This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Lawyer Anthony W. Geller.
This case is a part of Venture Protected Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing collectively all ranges of regulation enforcement and the communities they serve to cut back violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everybody. On Might 26, 2021, the Division launched a violent crime discount technique strengthening PSN primarily based on these core ideas: fostering belief and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that assist forestall violence from occurring within the first place, setting centered and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the outcomes.
This case can also be a part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Activity Forces (OCDETF) investigation. OCDETF identifies, disrupts, and dismantles the highest-level drug traffickers, cash launderers, gangs, and transnational prison organizations that threaten the US by utilizing a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency method that leverages the strengths of federal, state, and native regulation enforcement businesses in opposition to prison networks.
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